The Stars Converge

In l977 in the port city of Shimonoseki, Ikuko (Mizutani) enters a track and field meet being held as a goodwill event with South Korean sister city Pusan. There she meets and falls in love with An Tei Hou (Junpei), a South Korean boy. A year later, on the day of the Tanabata festival (known as "Chirusoku" in Korean), the young lovers are reunited and vow to meet again in four years time. Some twenty-six years later, Ikuko has become a high school P.E. teacher and fondly remembers her youthful love affair. The track and field event she competed in has not been held since the onset of Japan's economic recession, but is to be revived this year. Ikuko participates as a coach, while An is an anonymous sponsor. At last, they are able to fulfill their promise to meet again.