خلاصه داستان : ازدواج ناموفق "فومیکو" او را روز به روز در زندگی بدبین تر می کند. در این حین زوجی جدید به همسایگی او نقل مکان می کنند. دو زوج با هم رابطه ای برقرار می کنند که هر دو ازدواج را در آستانه نابودی قرار می دهد و...

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

خلاصه داستان : میهوکو و تای چی یک زن و شوهر اهل توکیو هستند که بمدت ده سال است با هم زندگی میکنند ولی شاد نیستند و مشکلاتی دارند ....

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small child who needs some security, and considers leaving his wife.