"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving three women: his wife of ten years who announces she is pregnant by another man; a mistress who wants to have a baby with him; and an ex-lover who claims he fathered her son.
A fines del período Edo, el doctor Seishu Hanaoka (1760-1835) se transforma en el primer médico en realizar una operación mediante el uso de anestesia general. La esposa y la madre del médico se convierten en rivales en la búsqueda de su afecto a punto tal de servir como conejillos de indias en sus experimentos.
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.
