Tree Without Leaves

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.

Tree Without Leaves is a 1986 drama movie directed by Kaneto Shindô, starring Meiko Kaji, Keiju Kobayashi, Nobuko Otowa. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.7/10 from 1,143 votes and runs 1h 45m.