

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age ...

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close...

Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutt...