After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to move in with one of the former's children, each of whom is scarcely happy to accommodate.

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

奔波忙碌的现代化都市，男男女女为了生计疲于奔命，却往往让内心的情感无处安置。在东京某耐火材料制造公司上班的普通职员杉山正二（池部良 饰）这是这群大众中的一员，他眼巴巴地等待着升迁的机会，苦熬年头。婚后多年情感转淡，加上孩子的夭折，让正二和妻子昌子（淡岛千景 饰）的关系变得冷淡而微妙。无聊枯燥的人生骤起波澜，被称为“金鱼”的公司女职员金子千代（岸惠子 饰）闯入正二的视线，更让这个男人有了出轨的机会。原本便濒临崩溃的婚姻开始皲裂，昌子悲伤绝望，而正二也突然得到外派偏远分公司的调令。
杉山夫妇的关系受到严峻的考验……

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.

1957 film by Yasujirō Ozu

1949 film by Yasujiro Ozu

1952 film by Yasujirō Ozu

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.