That reminds me, blogsis, I recently read the book and then your various posts, and it was a beautiful and emotional experience and brought me great comfort in the last few days of my dad's life, but also at one point in your movie summary you mentioned Anna arriving in Hokkaido and I have to issue a formal complaint because the London analogue is Sapporo, the capital OF Hokkaido (she simply moved from big-city Hokkaido to country town Hokkaido), where I in fact lived when I first watched this movie in cinemas, so in fact you are nitpicking and biased, I win.