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The relationship between Reiko, the daughter of a company president, and her husband, Takashi, is cold. Takashi was originally after the company president's position and wealth, so he does not love Reiko and is busy having an affair with his secretary, Mitsuko. Mitsuko, who is more ambitious than Takashi, encourages Takashi and devises a plan to take all of his wealth.
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JA

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.

An American journalist travels through 19th-century Japan to find the prostitute he fell in love with but instead learns of the physical and existential horror that befell her after he left.