Acting
One night, a man named Sakaki gets into the taxi driven by Masayo. He asks to be taken to a desolate stretch of coast. Although Masayo wants to avoid getting mixed up in trouble, she reluctantly starts the car after Sakaki flashes a thick wad of cash. As the taxi drives through the city at night, the two reflect on their respective pasts; both harboring a sense of loneliness, they gradually come to understand one another.
Sayaka, the eldest of three sisters, is in a sexless marriage with her obstetrician husband. Tomoe, the second daughter, is a serious graduate student who believes she will one day meet her soulmate. Yui, the youngest daughter, is a free-spirited part-timer with a free-spirited approach to relationships. One day, Yui gets a boyfriend who is an elite salaryman and gushes about him at home. Meanwhile, Tomoe meets her idolized actor and experiences a dramatic first time. And Sayaka also has a relationship with a construction worker who saved her from a burglar. However…
A beautiful woman marries a wealthy man, who for years chose to be a bachelor inspite of numerous female suitors. At first the marriage is perfect; he’s a loving husband and an enthusiastic lover. But soon the romance cools and the wife discovers that it has to do with a secret kept in the attic, something – or someone – he visits every night, that is changing him from a loving husband into a stranger… Akira Fukamachi directs this erotic and atmospheric drama.
The 1950s. The Kazama family is an ordinary salaryman family living in a detached house in Tokyo. The father, Ichiro, constantly tells his daughter Akiko to get married soon. One day, Akiko receives a marriage proposal from Tanaka, a senior colleague at her company and a union member, who is likely to be disliked by her father...
