Shizue Kawarazaki

A doomed love between a paper merchant and a courtesan.

The lives of two slum neighbors, one of a happy-go-lucky gambler and the other of a poor ronin, converge when the two get involved with the affairs of a powerful samurai official and his gangsters.

Upon receiving a shocking telegram from his cousin, a man recounts his early life, as a member of a broad family full of dark secrets that slowly reveal themselves through the clan ceremonies.

Brilliant and extremely realistic retelling of the day in Hiroshima that the bomb dropped and following days.