and are growing weary. Akira goes out one day to watch a junior high school's baseball match. The team's coach spots him and, short a player, asks him to sub in. Akira joins the game and enjoys playing baseball. While he is away, Yuki falls from a stool while trying to reach for something and dies. Akira goes to find Saki again, finally accepting her offer of financial support, and they buy as many boxes as they can find of Yuki's favorite chocolate candies, which they place with Yuki's dead body in a suitcase. With Saki's help, Akira takes the suitcase to a field near Haneda Airport's runway. They sit and watch planes come in, and then he and Saki dig a grave and bury the suitcase. They then return to the apartment, and the film ends with Akira, Kyōko, Shigeru, and Saki still together, walking home. Cast Yūya Yagira as , the eldest son, age twelve. According to his mother, his father worked at Haneda Airport. After their mother disappears, he becomes the surrogate head of the family and takes care of his siblings. Ayu Kitaura as , the oldest daughter and the second-eldest child, eleven years old. Keiko says her father was a music producer, and she dreams of owning her own piano. She takes charge of the laundry and other household chores. Hiei Kimura as , the younger son. He is very playful and energetic; Keiko claims he was the reason why they have had to move out of their previous apartment. Momoko Shimizu as , the youngest child. She is five years old, and the identity of her biological father is unknown. She loves to draw and eat Apollo Chocolate candies. Hanae Kan as , a high school student who is bullied by her classmates and frequently skips school, who befriends Akira and his siblings and helps them. You as , the mother of the children. She leaves to be with a man she hopes to marry and never returns. Kazumi Kushida as , the landlord Yukiko Okamoto as , the landlord's wife Sei Hiraizumi as the convenience store manager who mistakes Akira for a shoplifter Ryō Kase as a convenience store employee who gives Akira leftover sushi from the store to take home Yūichi Kimura as Sugihara, the taxi driver and possible father of Yuki Kenichi Endō as the pachinko parlor employee and possible father