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On the way home after being embraced by a man in a grove, an elderly gentleman named Akio calls out to her, but Keiko, who doesn't want to miss the last train, turns him down. That night, Hideki and Keiko get into an argument over something trivial, and Keiko is slapped in the face...
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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.

Akio
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.