خلاصه داستان : در یک آبگرم روستایی، سربازی به طور تصادفی پای خود را روی سنجاق سر می‌برد. به زودی صاحب دوست داشتنی آن را پیدا می کند و خود را شکست خورده می بیند.

Emi Ota and her friend Okiku stay briefly at a mountain inn and then return to Tokyo. Later, Nanmura, a soldier on leave, steps on an ornamental hairpin in the public bath at the inn. Emi writes to the inn saying she has lost a hairpin and, when she discovers that it injured Nanmura, returns to apologize. The longer term visitors at the inn meet together to discuss the hairpin incident. These include a grumpy Professor, a young couple Mr and Mrs Hiroyasu, and an old man staying with his two grandsons. They hope to see a romance blossom between Nanmura and Emi, after Nanmura declares that there is something almost poetic in finding a hairpin in the bath.

خلاصه داستان : یک معلم مدرسه تلاش می کند تا پسرش ریوهی را خودش بزرگ کند، علیرغم اینکه نه پول دارد و نه چشم انداز.

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.