Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr Matsukuma although he is misunderstood by most of the villagers and is forced to leave. After his departure there is great depression but there is a chance to rekindle the lantern of the title and the values Matsukuma represented ...
Length 97 minutes
Tokue Hanazawa | Haruko Hirata | Fusatarô Ishijima | Kyôko Kagawa | Yoshi Katô | Tanie Kitabayashi | Junji Masuda | Taketoshi Naitô | Nobuo Nakamura | Masao Oda