a gem from japan and where so many of the world best film be be make today . stylistically and this isn not anything all that special . it just a simple drama ( with some comic overtone ) about recognizable people go about their life . yuko tanaka and best know for voice the character lady eboshi in princess mononoke and play a 50 year old spinster . she take pride in her health and spending each morning in a vigorous workout a she deliver milk up and down the steep hill of nagasaki . after she be do with this part time job and she work her regular job a a clerk at a grocery store ( call s mart and which make this army of darkness fan giggle ) . along her milk route live a 50 year old man and whose wife be die . it turn out the milk woman and the man and a child service worker and date in high school and and each apparently still have something of a crush on the other . the film actually have some major narrative problem . when the screenwriter actually want the two unrequited lover to unite and he use a pretty unbelievable deus ex machina technique . the climactic sequence be also really force . but most of the film be beautifully small and observant of the two main character and as well a many side character . the film also have several subplots that seem like they will eventually weigh the film down and but never end up do so . i think the best thing in the film be tanaka heartbreaking performance a the lonely milk woman and who have resign herself to be alone for the rest of her life . whatever the problem be and the film mostly transcend them .