- Making of Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles

Takada, a Japanese fisherman has been estranged from his son for many
years, but when the son is diagnosed with terminal cancer his daughter-in-
law, Rie, summons him to the hospital. When his son refuses to see him,
Rie
gives him a videotape about the work his son was doing on a documentary
film in a remote region of China's Yunnan province. Still troubled by the
relationship, Takada decides to complete his son's work in part to develop
an understanding of his son, and in part to do something for him. Once in
China a series of obstacles and relationships bring him unexpectedly closer
to both an understanding of himself and of his son.