The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastat...
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed fa...
Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daugh...