Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her town and the tree they shared time under some twenty years back after a TV commercial shoot. His remembrances of her, the tree, and the long unrequited love stir both of their hearts to fumbling action as they re-discover the love between them.
A sensual play depicting a couple who reconsider their love for each other while being at the mercy of reality. Director Satoshi Sato, who also wrote the screenplay for his debut film, makes the surrounding characters work effectively, such as the neighbor who acquiesces to his wife who brings a man into his home, and finely depicts the passing and rebirth of a married couple. Kimie (Sawaki Mayumi), who married a monster suit actor, works at a boutique to support her household in place of her husband, who is unable to work due to heart disease. While Kimie, who loves her husband and is in love with a salesman, is unable to disclose her pregnancy, her husband finds out about her affair.
A lonely guy is stealing garbage and then reading people's sex lives by sniffing and analyzing the waste. When his new neighbors introduce themselves to him, he becomes obsessed with the pretty wife next door. The poor girl is unhappy in her marriage and her husband can't get it up for her. When the neighbor stumbles home blind drunk one night, he reveals to that he's a chemist working on an aphrodisiac and gives our hero a sample to try.
