A series of short stories from a family of ladies spanning three generations beautifully woven together depicting the different lives they lead during those changing times. The focus of this piece mainly potrays the different qualities in each of them overcoming Life's many trials.The squential story-telling takes audiences back and forth into time linking the three generations. The pace, like all Japanese films, is on the slow side but somehow all the stories are cleverly tied to the different seasons depicting the various emotions of the human heart.
Japanese films are known for being able to bring alot of Heart and subjective Humour (sometimes Horror too) to its audiences which can either be very good, very flat or very exagerrated. This film, however, manages to strike a very good balance between the two through the stellar casting and the time devoted to each of their stories.
This movie, in some ways, also celebrates the change in the status of women and how differently a male-predominant society sees them as compared to the roles they use to play.
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