At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boarding a train. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartment before flying to Kōchi Prefecture. Picking it up, he looks at it briefly before leaving. As the aeroplane takes off, he narrates the events that brought her into his life...
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| Writing | Saeko Himuro | Novel |
| Directing | Tomomi Mochizuki | Director |
| Sound | Shigeru Nagata | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Toru Horikoshi | Producer |
| Production | Michio Yokoo | Producer |
| Art | Naoya Tanaka | Art Direction |
| Production | Nozomu Takahashi | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Youko Sakamoto | Theme Song Performance |
| Production | Shinichiro Maeda | Producer |
| Visual Effects | Katsuya Kondo | Character Designer |
| Camera | Atsushi Okui | Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | Katsuya Kondo | Animation Director |
| Visual Effects | Masaaki Endou | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Atsuko Otani | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hideaki Yoshio | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hiroomi Yamakawa | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hiroshi Shimizu | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Katsuichi Nakayama | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Kenichi Konishi | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Kenichi Yoshida | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Masako Shinohara | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Masashi Ando | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Mayumi Hirota | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Mitsuo Iso | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Noriko Moritomo | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Shougo Furuya | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Takao Yoshino | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Takeshi Inamura | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Toshio Kawaguchi | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Yoshifumi Kondo | Key Animation |
| Writing | Keiko Niwa | Screenplay |
