With a young Shōhei Imamura among her assistant directors, Kinuyo Tanaka crafts a tender, quietly playful portrait of three sisters navigating romance, family and changing expectations in postwar Nara.

Ending his career with a ribald romantic comedy, Imamura brings together Kōji Yakusho and Misa Shimizu again after The Eel. The magical realist narrative follows Yosuke – a busted Tokyo businessman – on his search for hidden treasure in a provincial fishing town. Here, he is led wayward by the promise of a new romance, blossoming from a distinctly outré, yet remarkably sensual, connection.