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Ryoko's husband forges art for a living and beats her for trying to work outside the conjugal home. Her young son mimics her husband's behavior and her mother-in-law sanity slowly disintegrates as she treks to the cemetery everyday.
Top billed cast
Seiko AndoRyoko
Junya TanakaTadashi- Noriko TakadaKazuko
- Yume SugioHiroshi
- Futoshi KumagaiKeito
- Jo IshikawaEiji
- Chie WatanabeTomoko
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