Letter from the Mountain (2002)

Letter from the Mountain (2002) is a very slow paced story but very beautiful. U can see the beautiful mountains as if you were there in the big screen. A pair of husband and wife from the city moved to the village in the mountains. The wife is a doctor. The husband is a useless writer and not doing anything. I wonder how they get together. The husband even smoke himself. I doubt the husband have a good mentor because his mentor had stomach cancer and refuse of any treatment and prepare himself for death. His mentor thought that was the right thing to do, it was his fate when the times comes he had to go... The wife is a great doctor and have panic disorder in the city. In the mountains however she is much better. She came to husbands hometown so she could get cured. She became much better. They went fishing and caught a fish. She even helped a throat cancer girl became healthy again. She is bless with a baby in the late story. The grandmother in the story Ume-san is very old and she tells her story in the local newspaper. Its heart warming advise from the mountains.