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"Toshiko Iizuka begins an affair with Shin Tokudaiji. When she falls pregnant, he offers to declare her his wife, but she says she can manage on her own, rather than blighting his life before he begins it. She does fall in with a plan for Tokudaji's uncle, Takeshi Sakamoto, to pretend to be her lover, and for him and his wife to adopt 'his' child. In the Western world, this story would be told from Miss Iizuka's viewpoint, and she would be the central character. Here, however, the film concentrates more on the warm relationship between uncle and nephew, and it is more than ..."