Adapted from Takuji Ichikawa's novel "Meeting in the Rainy Season", the film tells the story of surpassing the unfulfilled promise, and the wife Suya, who passed away, returned to her husband Yujin and her son as if she had lost her memory.
/ 01 / Wife and mother who descended from heaven in the rain
The film begins with an animation and narration that narrates and depicts the land of clouds in heaven and on earth, where those who are about to go to heaven stop before their loved ones have forgotten them.
The mother penguin, who just arrived here not long ago, because she misses the penguin children on the ground so much, she watches the world with tears every day through the gap between the clouds. When the rainy season of the second year came, the mother penguin took the raindrop train to the world. At the station, she found a crying baby penguin wearing a yellow raincoat and hugged him in her arms. After that, they spent every day happily. But the rainy season is over soon, the mother penguin must leave the little penguin, because she does not return to the land of clouds, she will go to heaven, and can no longer watch the baby penguin in the gap between the clouds, the mother penguin did not cry, and the baby penguin also accepted Tears arose.
The little boy Ji Ho closed the picture book of the story of the rainy country and looked forward to the arrival of the rainy season. The actor Woo Jin stared at the portrait of his wife Soo Ah with helpless and empty eyes.
Soo Ah and Woo Jin are a couple and have a lovely son named Ji Ho. When Ji Ho was six years old, Soo Ah died. Xiuya is a smart and kind mother who gave her son Zhihao a good hope before she knew that she was about to die. Xiuya told Zhihao a story about the mother penguin who is above the cloud country, and will come to the world during the rainy season. Meet the baby penguins.
A year later, the father and son are dependent on each other, living hard and strong. The father and son live on a beautiful mountain far away from the town. Yuzhen wakes up at three in the middle of the night to clean the swimming pool and earn money to support the family. Xiao Zhihao went to his mother's closet alone, smelling his mother's smell, and fell asleep again. After sunrise, Woo-jin hurriedly rode his bike home to cook and send Xiao Ji-ho to school. Ji Ho is always watching when the rainy season is coming, sticking lucky four-leaf clovers on the windows, and both father and son kissing photos of their mothers when they go out.
One morning, raindrops clacked on the window. When Xiao Zhihao woke up from his sleep, he jumped up and ran to the train station on the mountain. Yu Zhen immediately followed. But the father and son did not see their mother at the train station, so they walked back in frustration. But when the father and son walked to the abandoned culvert, as a few birds were startled, a woman was sitting inside. Without saying a word, Xiao Zhihao ran over and said that this is her mother, and Yu Zhen also walked over. The heroine Xiuya gradually woke up, but she seemed to have lost her memory and did not recognize the father and son in front of her. Xiuya returned home with her father and son, and showed her things before her death, but Xiuya still couldn't remember. Son Ji-ho and dad Woo-jin made up a white lie together, claiming that she lost her memory after being ill and has now recovered.
So in this wonderful rainy season, the family of three became full again. Zhihao sticks to Xiuya's side all the time, even escaping school classes in order to play with his mother; Yuzhen often goes to his son's room when he wakes up in the middle of the night, staring at and stroking his wife's sleeping face, as if treating an easy task. Broken treasure. When working in the swimming pool, he also changed his usual sluggishness, and people around him laughed and said that he was "in love". Life goes on like this unhurriedly. One night, in order to retrieve her lost memory, Xiu Ya took the initiative to ask about what happened to Yu Zhen and the other in the past.
/ 02 / The little thing about love
Yu Zhen started to tell the past to Xiu Ya who lost her memory.
The two of them are high school classmates, and Yuzhen has liked Suya since high school. At that time, Yu Zhen was still a high-spirited swimmer, and Xiu Ya was a quiet girl with excellent studies. He often peeks at the girl's fair and beautiful profile in class. In swimming class, he heroically saves Xiuya, who was almost drowning: Yuzhen has a good friend Hong Jiu, who gives him advice and ideas, but Xiuya doesn't play cards according to the routine.
In one dance class, Yu Jin was a left-handed and often had problems. At this time, Xiu Ya also said that she was left-handed, so they danced together. But the nervous Yu Jin screwed everything up, stepping on Xiuya's foot and knocking her out of a nosebleed and eating tofu, and they haven't spoken to each other for three years since then. When graduating from high school, Xiuya came to find Yuzhen and Hong Jiu, two friends, to sign the classmate record. Yuzhen didn't have the courage to confess, but Yuzhen's pen fell on Xiuya.
After graduating, Suya went to Seoul to study at university, and Yuzhen stayed in her hometown. Yuzhen always thought about Suya, and tried to call Suya many times under the pretext of taking a pen, but she never had the courage to speak. Later, when he came back from vacation, with Hong Niang Hong Jiu's matchmaking, Yu Zhen asked Xiu Ya to meet for the first time with a bad reason like "My pen is very expensive, so please give it back to me". The two meet at the school gate of the high school. After being dressed up by Hong Jiu, the straight man Woo Jin has a pink and greasy hairstyle, and takes a pen and lets Soo Ah go home. But he was still reluctant to ask Xiuya to have dinner together. During the meal, he also talked with Xiuya about the scenery of Norway. The reason was the novel "Norwegian Forest" that Xiuya read in high school, and the two laughed.
After the first date, Yu Zhen tried his best to catch up with Xiu Ya's bus because his miss and love had been buried in his heart for too long. Facing her with bright eyes, he hesitated and asked, can he write more in the future? contact by letter. Maybe it was because of this silly big boy that they got together naturally.
They wrote letters all the time; when Xiuya came home from the holiday, they ran to the top of the hill to watch an open-air movie in the distance with binoculars as a date, and tried to kiss; they maintained a sweet and happy love relationship until one day, Yu Zhen Finding out that he is ill, can no longer play the sport of swimming, and even his normal life will be affected if he does his best. In order to preserve his last dignity and not delay Xiuya, he chose to hide from her, and Yuzhen chose to break up painfully.
In the year after there was no news of Xiuya, he missed Xiuya all the time, and finally one day he mustered up the courage to go to the university campus in Seoul to find Xiuya, but saw Yiren got in another boy's car and left. He thought that she was very happy, and it was finally time to let go. After a long time, when Yu Jin was renovating his new home on the mountain one day, he received a call from Xiu Ya. A few days later, I actually picked her up from the train station in my hometown. She walked quickly from a distance, threw herself into his arms, and promised to say "we will be together forever". Despite her family's objections, Xiu Ya gave up her studies and lived with Yu Jin. They got married, had their son Ji Ho, and had the happiest and happiest time.
/03 /A Parting That Can't Be Escaped
The rainy season always comes to an end. One day when the father and son both went out, Xiu Ya saw her previous diary while cleaning at home. It was night. She put on the TV a video recorded shortly after Ji Ho was born, smiling and weeping at the same time. She finally understood the meaning of that "Mother Penguin". She was running out of time and had to do something. Soo Ah begins to teach Ji Ho simple life skills, teaching him how to sweep the floor, how to dry clothes, and how to wash his hair by himself.
The rainy season is about to end, and Xiao Zhihao is still sticking to the lucky four-leaf clover, looking for a way to rain. In order to prolong the rainy season, the child asked his mother to stay longer, and every day he went to his classmate's father's car and covered it with soap bubbles. Because a classmate said that his father would rain as long as he washed the car. The place where Xiuya’s rainy season reappears is in a train tunnel not far from their home. Every night, the honest and kind-hearted Yu Zhen pulls his only friend Hong Jiu to carry wood together, trying to fill the tunnel entrance, hoping to block her from coming. time road.
Xiu Ya visits Yu Zhen's friend, Hong Jiu, the owner of the bakery. She brought a stack of birthday cards until her son's twentieth birthday. She asked Hongjiu to send her a cake and blessings representing her mother every year.
The penultimate day of the rainy season is Ji Ho's birthday. Xiuya bought the cake, and the whole family spent a warm evening together. They celebrated Jiho's birthday together and made an appointment to watch Jiho's performance together.
On the stage of Zhihao's school performance, each child introduced his hobbies, dreams, actors, scientists, pilots.... When it was Zhihao's turn, he kept his head down and walked slowly. Step forward.
Looking at the mother standing in the front row, she said: I'm good at running, I'm good at cleaning, and the vacuum cleaner can't be turned on very strongly, so the dust is not easy to be sucked in. I'm also good at washing clothes, they have to be slapped and aired; I'm also good at washing my hair, I can't use my nails when washing my hair; I'm also good at cooking, and when frying an egg, you need to lightly beat the egg into it and fry it; say it out loud After leaving, I have to take good care of my father, and I made an agreement with my mother.
Xiuya was about to leave, Zhihao chased down to the tunnel to say goodbye to her mother in tears, and Yuzhen desperately ran from the swimming pool to the tunnel to catch up with his wife for the last time.
/04 /Things You Don't Know
Life gradually returned to the past. One day, Yuzhen took the key of Xiuya's studio and went to the studio where Xiuya often painted before her death, and saw her diary.
Xiuya first met Yuzhen in an alley during the rainy season. Yuzhen politely put away her umbrella and let Xiuya pass through. She saw this handsome boy through the gap and had a preliminary impression of him. Unexpectedly, Yuzhen was in the same class as herself, and she became more and more in love.
She was embarrassed in swimming class and dancing class, so she gradually dared not communicate with Yuzhen. Until graduation, she mustered up the courage to look for Yuzhen's signature, and took Yuzhen's pen with no intention. Looking forward to the ringing of the phone every day, Yu Zhen finally plucked up the courage and took the first step.
Of course, Xiu Ya also knew the fact that Yu Zhen came to see her on that rainy day. She got into her junior's car to take shelter from the rain, and saw the back of the person she liked in the dim light. She got out of the car and saw the four-leaf clover she had given to Yuzhen, but unexpectedly got into a car accident while crossing the road. When she opened her eyes, she found that she had traveled to the future eight years later, which was the scene in the original culvert. The 25-year-old Soo Ah lost her memory after a car accident, and met Woo Jin and her son Ji Ho eight years later.
While everything is unfamiliar and clumsy, she falls in love with Woo-jin again. After waking up again from a car accident, he was in a coma for six weeks with serious injuries. That is, in these six weeks, the young she traveled to the rainy season one year after her death. In that chaotic time and space, Xiu Ya felt unprecedented happiness and knew that she would die of illness a few years after marrying Woo Jin.
After waking up, Xiu Ya has more choices, but she still chooses to be with Yu Jin for this love. Against all odds, against her family's objections, and against her own physical condition, she found Woo-jin, got married, and had their children. When Xiu Ya got on the train to Yuzhen and wrote the last sentence "Now to see you" in her diary, it was only a few words, full of love, full of indomitable and desperate for love . It was only at this point that Woo Jin understood what Yu Xiuya said when he met Xiuya goodbye, "Don't worry, we will be fine, everything is destined."
In the last scene, Zhihao is already 20 years old, and Yuzhen has gray hair, but he is still in that world, and he is still alone. He handed Xiuya's diary and the gift that Xiuya asked Hong Yu to give to their precious son.
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