The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.
Toshio Shiina | Screenplay |
Yoshiro Tomita | Screenplay |
Yoshiaki Banshō | Director |
Tatsuo Hosoya | Executive Producer |
Shizuo Yamanouchi | Associate Producer |
Toshio Ubukata | Director of Photography |
Masao Kumagai | Art Direction |
Ryozo Toyoshima | Lighting Technician |
Tokio Hiramatsu | Sound Recordist |
Yutaka Makino | Original Music Composer |