東京ラブストーリー (Tokyo Love Story, 1991) | 肱川河畔 — A bright walk after the ending has begun

肱川（ひじかわ）の河畔 in Ōzu carries one of the final arc’s most bittersweet conversations. Back in Kanji’s Ehime hometown, Rika walks beside him and kicks an empty can while he remembers how local children once felt excited by approaching typhoons even as the adults worried. Her energy makes the scene look playful, but the audience already feels the distance opening between them. The riverbank leads naturally into the pair’s walk along nearby Ohanahan Street, turning Kanji’s childhood landscape into the setting for a farewell neither of them can yet say plainly. Ōzu City’s filming-location map marks this stretch of riverbank as the can-kicking location. The riverside is an outdoor public space whose conditions can change after rain or flood-control work; obey barriers, keep away from unstable edges, and never leave a can or other prop behind. Photo: 京浜にけ, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.