NASK-289 A superb Showa-era sensual drama: the fleeting, provocative, and vivid allure of women swept up in the turmoil of wartime and postwar Japan, featuring 6 women over 4 hours

Nostalgic scenes from the Showa era. The everyday relationships between men and women that were once common everywhere. During wartime Japan, a wife who had been waiting for her husband after he was sent to the front receives news that he has been killed in action. She meets a man who lost someone dear to him in the recent air raid, and before long their relationship deepens. Future lives each day with quiet resilience while worrying about her husband who has gone off to war. Pressured by her live-in father-in-law to submit to his advances, she ends up trapped in a troubling routine. As a child, Saki lost her mother, Maki, and later investigates the hometown she was never told about, uncovering an incident from 34 years ago. What sparked that incident? One day, when he visits the ramen shop as usual, he runs into the proprietress returning from visiting a grave, and after sharing a little drink, they end up becoming involved.