Yūko Mochizuki

A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.

A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.

A childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis.

A girl who had left her home village for life in Tokyo returns to her home years later, and evokes a scandal when the locals discover that she's a stripper.

Alternating in time, between the end of World War II and 1953, Haruko, a widow, does what she can to keep her daughter Utako and son Seiichi safe, fed, and sheltered. By 1953, it's clear that the children, as they enter adulthood,...

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Machiko and Haruki are not allowed to meet. When at last they find each other, Haruki has to part for Europe.

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