The Tokyo Olympics are about to open, and Rynosuke Chagawa is excited to receive a new TV set to watch the upcoming events. His wife Hiromi is pregnant and he has built a second level on his shop to provide his adopted son Junnosuke with a private space to study for entrance to Tokyo University to set up a career with a major company. He dreams of sparing Junnosuke the struggles that he has faced as a writer. The family continues to rely upon Hiromi's income from her bar. Meanwhile a rival story, The Virus, by a new writer has appeared in the periodical that has been publishing his stories "Boy's Adventure Book" and he fears the new competition. Norifumi Suzuki also receives a new TV, but more of a deluxe model. Mutsuko Hoshino (Roku) is still the principal mechanic in the Suzuki family's auto repair shop, but she dresses up some mornings to go to a nearby street with the hope of a "chance" meeting with Dr...

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A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary hous...

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Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the ...

In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wo...

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Satoru, a wheelchair-bound elementary student, locks himself away from the outside world after his m...

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In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As fur...