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Kenta a just fired pianist, finds himself at a bookstore in Heaven after he was
dead drunk out of desperation in a tavern last night.
He`s not dead. The bookstore has hired him for a short-term job, and he can
go back to the earth after the working period. Most of the other habitants in
Heaven have already ended their life on the earth and are preparing for their
next life back on the earth. Since every human being has a life of just one
hundred years, they live in Heaven for the rest of their life after they die on
the earth. If you are dead at seventy, you live for thirty years in Heaven and
start a new life on the earth as completely another person -- you have no
memory about the previous life. If you live on the earth for a hundred years or
more, you immediately reincarnate without going to Heaven.
Soon, Kenta knows Heaven is not like he imagined before and not much
different from the earth. It has towns, streets, stores, parks, vehicles, and
anything which exists on the earth. He meets a beautiful woman named
Shoko. She has a grand piano in her cottage and that reminds him that he
met her on the earth when he was a boy. She was a gifted pianist and
inspired him to make himself a pianist. She tells him she has not played the
piano since she lost her one ear`s hearing by an accident and has
occasional pains in the ear.
At the same time on the earth, Shoko`s niece, Kanako (Takeuchi, in a double
role) is making efforts to restore the town`s annual summer fireworks display
after more than ten years` interruption. She and her pals especially want to
revive its highlight program, "The Loving Fireworks". It is said couples will
unite forever if they watch the firework. But Kanako and her pals face a big
problem. There is the only man who can make the firework and he quit the
job more than ten years ago. She finds and meets the fireworks maker but
he tells her he has no intention to make "The Loving Fireworks" or any other
fireworks. She gets to know the reason. When he invited his girlfriend to his
workshop, he caused an accidental explosion and it robbed her of the one
ear's hearing and her music life as a pianist.
This film has two stories in Heaven and on the earth which go on at the
same time. When and how will the two meet? And What will happen when
they meet?
