
1964
During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much rather be translating Shakespeare than attending to her, and she has a secret in her past - one that results in her sleeping with a great number of men.

Noboru Nakaya
Keikichi Nunami

Kazuko Inano
Sugako Nunami

Tamio Kawachi
Kenichi Sekiguchi

Sadako Sawamura
Tomiko Sekiguchi

Kaori Taniguchi
Hiroko Shimura

Yūko Kusunoki
Kimiko

Shigako Shimegi

Setsuko Amamiya
Mie

Kinshirô Iwao
Katase

Keisuke Yukioka
Prefectural bureau chief

Masami Shimojō
Shozo Kageyama

Eiken Shoji
Oikawa

Takeshi Katō
Segawa

Kazuo Kitamura
Kohei Otani

Asao Koike
Matoba

Shigeru Kōyama
Tashiro

Ken Mitsuda

Needle in a Timestack

Murder by Numbers

How to Make an American Quilt

Madadayo

Visitor Q

The Heart Is a Dark Forest

Cover Up

The Trap

The Lovers

The New Interns

Cul-de-sac

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

Why Did I Get Married?

Rondo

Naval Port Child: Yokosuka Cleaning 1946

Tanwa Savage

The River Wild

Ma Belle, My Beauty

Love Exchange

Fatal Attraction