Synopsis

Four sisters in the Takezawa family gather for the first time in a long while upon learning their father has a mistress and a love child. The quartet decide against letting their mother Fuji (Yachigusa Kaoru) know about it and take advantage of the gathering to reveal their own problems to each other. The oldest sister Tsunako (Otake Shinobu), has been having a love affair. The second oldest, Makiko (Kuroki Hitomi), knows her husband has a younger girlfriend. The third sister, Takiko (Fukatsu En), who is painfully shy, has made up her mind to marry her first love. The youngest, Sakiko (Fukada Kyoko), who had been living with her boyfriend, got married after finding out she was pregnant. Meanwhile, their mother suddenly passes away and after her funeral they find a letter she had written to a newspaper. In the past, they had all read the same newspaper column which discussed the love affairs taking place nowadays in society. It was actually their mother who wrote the articles. They realize that she had known about their father's mistress and child all along, yet still accepted and forgave him.

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Director Bio

Born in 1950 in Tokyo, a Broadcasting graduate of Nihon University, Morita Yoshimitsu began his career with an 8mm film, "Alive in Chigasaki," in 1978, making his first feature-film debut in 1981 with "Something like Yoshiwara." "Family Game" (1983) brought him international attention, and since then he has applied his taste for experimentation and ironic sense of humor to a wide variety of genres. "Haru" (1995) explored the nuances of love on the internet, while "Lost Paradise" (1997), a tale of infidelity, is one of the highest-grossing live-action films ever made in Japan. "Keiho" (1999) was selected for competition in the Berlin Film Festival

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