The wall man is a strange wall-dwelling creature that is neither human nor ghost.
Kaido is a professional pickpocket who works the Tokyo subway with his young foster-daughter, Rei: She lets herself be groped while Kaido relieves the groper of his wallet. More often than not they're observed by a middle-aged cop, who generally lets Kaido go free. Rei is unsettled when Kaido takes on a young street punk, Kazuki, as an apprentice -- with instructions to make Kaido stop drinking. Kazuki, however, would like to go into business with Rei.
테즈카 학원 강당에 있는 피아노에는 슬픈 전설이 있었다. 80년 전, 이루어질 수 없는 사랑을 하고 있던 연인들이 그 피아노를 대화의 수단으로 사용했었다. 비극적인 최후를 맞은 연인들이 또 다시 생겨지 않게 하려고 학교 측은 피아노의 다리를 강당에 붙박이로 고정시킨 것이다. 그리고 현재, 연극부 부장인 야마자키 유코가 '월광'의 악보만을 남긴 채 투신자살을 하고, 그가 남긴 마지막 작품인 '푸른 눈동자의 천사'가 무대에 오른다. 그와 동시에 잔인한 사건이 벌어지기 시작하는데...
This coming-of-age story from Japan opens just after 17-year-old Sataka has gotten dumped by her boyfriend. When her mother is hospitalized with a malignant stomach ulcer, Sataka is left alone with her emotionally repressed father; whiling away the hours one day, she comes across a love letter written to her mother 24 years earlier. Deciding to track down the letter's author, Sataka eventually finds Shinichiro (Hiroyuki Sanada), an overweight slob who was abandoned by his wife years earlier and now spends his time hanging around pachinko parlors. Determined to clean him up and reintroduce him to her mother, Sataka nags Shinchiro until he finally agrees to her demands, and a gradual friendship develops between the two as Sataka drags him to the gym and a clothing store. But once Shinchiro's makeover is complete, he turns the tables on his young friend, and when the time comes for him to meet Sataka's mother, all concerned parties find themselves embarking on a new phase in their lives.
Kizaki, who moved to Tokyo from the Kansai region to become a manga artist, is assigned to work at a used electrical appliance store where he works part-time as a store keeper and repairman. One day, a woman comes to the store drenched from the rain. She is Setsuko, the only daughter of the store's president and a returnee. Since then, Setsuko often comes to the store. Kizaki becomes concerned about Setsuko, but Setsuko has something to do with Oshi, a senior who used to work at the store...
