SYNOPSIS

March 1967, Reiko Akabane lived a peaceful life with her husband and two-year-old son, Jun. The story began when Reiko was reunited with some former suicide pilots after they suddenly visited her one day. As well as Reiko, these war buddies longed for and recalled the peaceful good old days spent at Reiko’s mother’s restaurant, They drank sake and sang war songs every night at her home. After the boys drank themselves into a stupor and slept in the living room, Reiko called her mother Tome. “Mother, can I go home to Chiran next month?

”Two years later, Reiko opened her own shop called “The Lady from Satsuma” in Takadanobaba, Tokyo. Her mother’s words made her decide to follow in her mother’s footsteps, “We are survivors. Those boys are too. Surviving means we must do something with our lives. Do what you can do for them.” Reiko, troubled by what she could do for the survivors, flashed back to remember that she wanted to run a shop like her mother.

Fast forwarding to 2014, The Lady from Satsuma had been running for 45 years. There were portraits of Tome and Reiko, both deceased. Jun proudly kept the shop handed down from his grandmother and mother and told the tales of the old days to the actors who appeared in the film.