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You can watch Village of Dreams (1996) for free on Kanopy.

Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their schoolteacher mother, civil servant father, elderly landlord, a rough new boy at the school, and three mysterious spirits in the form of old women.

Can the innocence of childhood survive the heavy shadows of post-war rural Japan? This quiet portrait follows two young twins as they navigate the shifting boundaries between their family life and the mysterious spirits lurking in their village.