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In the north-eastern reaches of the People's Republic of China, a dwindling number of senior citizens live in the municipally-run apartment building known as the China-Japan Amity House. The half-dozen seniors remaining are all foster parents of the Japanese war orphans left in Manchuria after the Soviet invasion in 1945. Before the war, over a million Japanese had been living in the area. With defeat came deaths, family break-ups and abandoned children. Chinese foster parents then faced persecution for aiding "children of the enemy". Trapped between the flawed plans of both countries, they struggle to preserve parental ties that transcend blood ties.

Japan - 2004 - 52 mn - HD DV - Colour

Director Sato Toshihiko, Saito Kenji Camera Inagawa Hideji Sound Ogata Shinichiro Editing Takahashi Akira, Hisanaga Yoshie

Production NHK Japan Broadcasting Corp, 2-2-1 Jinnan, Shibuya-Ku, 150-8001 Tokyo, Japon Tél : +81 3 5455 4279 Fax : +81 3 3481 1453

Sales NHK Japan Broadcasting Corp, 2-2-1 Jinnan, Shibuya-Ku, 150-8001 Tokyo, Japon Tél : +81 3 5455 4279 Fax : +81 3 3481 1453 E-mail : yoshida.y-oa@nhk.or.jp