An unusual and accomplished film in spite of a few minor flaws, this directorial effort by Kiriro Urayama was co-scripted by acclaimed Shohei Imamura, and deals with the justified rebellion of a brother and sister living in a Japanese backwater. The siblings have been raised by a petty, traditionally-minded father and their family is locked into the tight social prison of the lower economic classes. But times throughout Japan are changing and the siblings begin to look for their way in life by overcoming class biases and seeing through some of the blinders that have kept their peers thinking in limited and sometimes racially biased terms. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi