Mitsuya Majime is an unsuccessful salesman. But his love of reading and dedication, as well as a post-graduate degree in linguistics, catches the eyes of Nishioka and Araki, dictionary editors who are seeking a replacement for Araki himself, as his wife is sick and he would like to spend more time by her bedside. With Majime on the editing team, the group plans to produce a new dictionary called The Great Passage which would bridge the gap between people and the sea of words and would take years to complete.
The Great Passage is one of those movies that stays with you after you've seen it and makes you want to watch it again. The plot and the characters are so good, it may sound boring to watch a film that's about writing a dictionary but it's actually really exciting and fun to see the kind of problems they face when doing this kind of work. It's one of the best films of 2013, and it's hard not to enjoy just about every scene of this well-written story.
Genre: Drama
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