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Mizumori and Aoyagi drive a Cadillac to Roppongi for the purpose of picking up girls. When the Roppongi gals saw the extremely anachronistic Cadillac, they laughed and left. When Mizumori starts driving again, he spots a nice woman, Chikako Aoyama, who is trying to stop her taxi.
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Released
Original Language
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.

Kyôko, a traumatized young Japanese girl, finds herself struggling with her self-confidence in her adult life. Growing up in a family without her mother and her sister, she constantly questions the rationale of sex and the notion of liberty in modern Japanese society.