A decade after my maiden visit to Japan, I viewed a film whose female protagonist was an elderly resident of Nagasaki who had been in the area when the atom bomb nicknamed 'Fat Man' was dropped over the city. Akira Kurosawa's Rhapsody in August is considered to be a minor work of the late Japanese cinema giant but I was very moved by it all the same. And I expected to be similarly affected when viewing another drama centering on a Nagasaki woman who managed to survive the Second World War; this one made by an octogenarian filmmaker -- many of whose other works (including What a Wonderful Family!, The Yellow Handkerchief (1977) and installments of the Tora-san series) I love -- and released in its native Japan 70 years after World War II came to a close.