
Legendary animators Hayao Miyazaki & Isao Takahata team up to create this nostalgic animated work aimed at adult women based on a manga by Yuko Tone & Kei Okamoto The film centres on Taeko a 27-year-old office worker who is sick of her job & ready for a change She suddenly recalls the year 1966 when she was young & full of hope She ventures to rural Yamagata prefecture to visit her sister & her brother-in-law There she helps with the family farm where they turn saffron flowers into pigment for lipstick While there she meets a hunky young farmer who&s the cousin of her brother-in-law She is immediately taken with his hard-working salt-of-the-earth ways