When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by the wife of a company president who is having an affair. The woman's husband manages to buy silence about the incident, but the victim's mother discovers the identity of the driver. After she secures a job in the home of the company president and his philandering spouse, the woman plans to murder the couple's son when he reaches the age of her late son.
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"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
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얼마 전 남편을 잃은 시게코는 어린 아들 히데오와 함께 오라버니의 집에서 살기로 한다. 그리고 작은 여관에서 일을 시작하며 새로운 생활에 적응하려 한다. 그런데 어느 날 친하게 지내던 여관 손님 도미오카와 사귄다는 소문이 돌면서 곤란한 입장에 처한다. 특히 아들 히데오의 입장을 생각하면 더욱 그렇다.
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself "already dead."
딸이자 아내이자 엄마로 살아가야 하는 여성의 삶을 그린 영화. 장남 유이치로는 어머니와 동생들, 그리고 자식들을 보살펴야 한다는 책임감에 어깨가 무겁다. 그리고 이 책임은 유이치로의 아내인 가즈코에게 더욱 무겁게 다가온다.
