In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a used bookstore owner who aids her research.

Yo Hitoto
as Yoko Inoue

Tadanobu Asano
as Hajime Takeuchi

Masato Hagiwara
as Seiji

Kimiko Yo
as Yoko's Stepmother

Nenji Kobayashi
as Yoko's Father

Yôko Hoshi
as

Keiichi Asada
as

Yukio Endô
as

Mikiko Kakizawa
as

Hiroko Kumada
as