Deep in the Valley interlaces a story of young romance set in Yanaka part of old downtown Tokyo with a Japanese period drama based on FiveStory Pagoda a classic literary work by Rohan Koda In the contemporary story Kaori a young woman working for a nonprofit organization that restores home movies learns that there used to be a fivestory pagoda in the middle of Yanaka Cemetery It burned down in 1957 and rumor has it that someone has an 8mm film of the fire
DirectorAtsushi Funahashi