- HD 1080
- Runtime: 123m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: ja
- Country: Japan
- Director: Yoji Yamada
- Stars: Ken Takakura, Chieko Baisho, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Tetsuya Takeda, Noko Konoha
- Production_studio: Shochiku
- Slogan: A man, a woman, and her son – three lives thrown together on a stormy night.
- The A Distant Cry from Spring is featured in the top rankings of 1980
- #23 in Top Drama Movies of 1980
The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the heart of the mother and shows her boy the importance of grit and kindness, but then he leaves with the autumn wind.