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In 1993, shoe-repairman Kanao ties the knot with Shoko, who works in publishing, because he's got her pregnant. Apart from liking each other, they don't have too much in common. She's a bit of a control freak, complete with firm ideas about how often they should make love, and he's, well, loose and easy-going. But a friend asks him to take over a TV news job as a courtroom sketch-artist and he soon finds himself exposed to -- and drawing -- some of the most disturbed people in Japan, from child murderers to a member of the Aum sect which gas-attacked the Tokyo subway. Shoko, meanwhile, traumatized by a miscarriage, begins to fall apart; she needs to retreat from her job and from Tokyo to recover her equilibrium, and finds that learning some traditional "spiritual" arts helps too. Previously best known for gay-themed films, director Hashiguchi gets right to the heart of what it takes for two people to nurture each other and hold it all together.
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