While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are…

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama’s life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is…