Ilona et son mari Lauri, respectivement maitre d'hotel et conducteur de tramway, menent une vie tranquille en compagnie de leur chien. Jusqu'au jour ou Ilona perd son travail, quelque temps apres le licenciement de son mari..
Retired samurai Kumosuke lives quietly, not to say idly, in Edo (old Tokyo) with his wife and two children, a young boy named Shinnosuke and an infant girl, Ohana. While he nominally runs a courier business to earn a living, he seems to spend most of his time smoking his pipe, drinking sake, and chasing women. The arrival of a Shinsengumi squad led by a young swordswman, Ichimonji Hyougo, disrupts this peaceful routine, forcing Kumosuke to defend himself..
"This narrative begins in an extraordinarily simple way. A camera, some friends, a whole day..." A film about memory, love, the nouvelle vague and making movies with friends..
Kumosuke walks out on his pregnant lover, Fumiyo, and goes to see his old lover, Kiyoko. Even though Kiyoko's husband, Sachio and her sister, Hikaru think Kumosuke suspect, Kumosuke pretends to be Kiyoko's brother and stays in her house unconcernedly. One day, Kiyoko suffers from constipation and begs Kumosuke to suck out feces from her mouth. As Sachio gets jealous for being stolen his part of sucking his wife out, he does the same thing to Hikaru, which causes a collapse of the family. The meeting and parting of strange and sad people. Where the story heads to....
A 10-year old girl in a mining town, separated from her family, keeps a diary which becomes a best-seller..
