Paul Averhoff was once a great marathon runner, the gold medal
winner at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Now over 70 and forced to
live in a nursing home, Paul rejects the singing group and handicraft
classes for his old running shoes and announces that he is training
for the Berlin Marathon, which he intends to win.
A film adaptation of a play made by a high school drama club, directed by Yamashita Nobuhiro of Linda Linda Linda (2006). It’s essentially a coming-of-age film about teenagers made by teenagers. During summer vacation, at a high school, the PE teacher makes female students who skipped his class clean the outdoor swimming pool. The drained pool is full of sand blown in from a ne...