Beyond the Seasonal Wind 1958

Directed by Hideo Sekigawa

Fumie Namura is an ambitious high school graduate, who’s encouraged by her teacher Mr. Kōda to apply for university. Due to her family’s poor state, she instead takes up a teaching position at a junior high school in the mountain village Fukasawa. There she meets an idealistic teacher named Tetsuo Yasunari, who proposes the idea of a school library room. Upon his death, she continues his legacy.