Response of the Winter Day

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Winter Days(冬の日Fuyu no Hi)

It's a Japanese film directed by Kihachiro Kawamoto. The creation of the film also followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material. This film is made of several sequences which are all under a minute.

"Accustomed as I am to extreme poverty, I still feel sorry for myself. Suddenly remembering the master of mad verse who traveled in this province long ago, I wrote...."
The main character in this film traveled to a small province to visit the master of mad verse. He walked in the forest and kept listening the tree through a small device. 
He walked to a tree which was leaves were falling down. It seemed like he observed the tree and slightly knocked on the tree. Then the woodpecker came.

This man looks like have the power to cure other people, including trees. So that the wood pecker came the eat the warm inside of the tree. Also he helped remove the itch from the master. In the end the man grabbed the cloth and looked at the master through it. He exchanged the hat with the master. He worn the hat with the rip and left.

This story reminds me the doctrine of buddism which claims that people should sacrifice themselves to help people. Although the man came to visit the master, he cured the master and gave him his hat. In the end the hat was blew away and disappeared in the distance. For me, it looks like it's implying the continue of the doctrine of the buddism.