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Yohei is a large man who works as a town courier. His weakness is his slowness, which his colleague Densuke always makes fun of him for. One day, a young samurai asks him to deliver a letter to the daughter of a tokoroten shop owner on a back street on the outskirts of town. When he arrives, he finds a tokoroten stall, and a young woman named Orin is running the shop all by herself. As Yohei hands the letter to Orin, he is captivated by her lovely body.
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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.

Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life.