The Xuanwu Bookstore plans to publish a medium-sized national language dictionary for contemporary people, "The Great Ocean". The experienced and meti[Expand All]
The Xuanwu Bookstore plans to publish a medium-sized Mandarin dictionary for contemporary people, titled "The Great Ocean". The experienced and meticulous Mandarin scholar, Tomoyuki Matsumoto (played by Tsuyoshi Kato), serves as the supervisor and director. However, the editor he values most, Kazuhiro Araki (played by Kaoru Kobayashi), has reached retirement age and chooses to return home to take care of his sick wife. At this time, in the editorial department, there were only the impetuous Masashi Nishioka (played by Ryo Odakie) and the temporary worker Kaoru Sasaki (played by Hiroko Izayama). Araki and Nishioka scouted around and finally set their sights on Matsuda Mitsuya (played by Ryohei Matsuda), a young man in the business department who was not good at socializing but had a sharp sense of words and was extremely serious and dedicated in his work. In the vast ocean of words, Ma Di and his colleagues spent as long as fifteen years compiling a small boat to sail towards the other shore. They are content with loneliness, yet they also reap precious happiness... This film is adapted from the original work of the same name by Miura Shizuen.[Collapse]
