is a 1977 Japanese film directed by Yoji Yamada. It was the winner of the first Best Picture award at the Japan Academy Prize. The film was inspired by the American song "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree," itself based on a column series written by journalist Pete Hamill for the New York Post in 1971. Plot Kinya Hanada, who fell out of love with Nobuko, suddenly retired from the factory where he worked. With his retirement allowance, he bought a bright red Mazda Familia and took a ferry alone to Hokkaido for healing his broken heart. Kinya, who came to Abashiri from Kushiro, started talking to the woman in front of the station. Meanwhile, Yusaku Shima, a former coal miner who has finished his sentence, is released from Abashiri prison. He stops by the cafeteria and orders beer with soy sauce ramen and katsudon. Kinya, who was just in Abashiri, also picks up a woman, Kaori Momoi, who came to Tokyo after a difficult time with her colleagues at work, and had a meal with her. Yusaku, who finished his meal and stopped at the post office, wrote out a postcard and mailed it. Kinya starts driving with Akemi and Ukiuki, two people who came to the beach and had Yusaku, who was also there, take a picture. The two will ride with him and start the trip. That night, Kinya, sharing a room with Manma and Akemi at the Akanko Onsen inn, started arguing with Akemi and leaned on Akemi, saying "only a kiss." Akemi, who was resisting, suddenly stopped moving and began to cry. Yusaku, staying in the next room, hears the turmoil and gives a shout to Kinya. The three people continue to travel even though they are very tired. The next day, near Rikubetsu Station Yusaku was not chatty while eating crab in a small dining room near where Kinya was born. After that, instead of Kinya, who ran into the toilet with a car on the street while feeling abdominal pain while driving, Akumi said, "I went to provisional exemption" to pass the tractor of the oncoming car, but the car swerved. In the chaos he dashed out of the car through the farmland and forced a car into a bales of hay, causing Kinya and Akemi to argue, and Akimi began to cry. Negotiating with Yusaku, he will stay at