Haruko Toda

Among the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a tobacco shop owner-cum-landlady, an insurance salesman ...

A young girl is being asked about a man with whom she was keeping company, as her grandmother plays a lament on a shamisen. Then the focus ...

Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they’ve developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure ...