Takuro Okada – Konoma

Woman Of The Lake / Onna no mizumi - by Yoshishige (Kiju) Yoshida (1966)

Miyako, a housewife, becomes intimately involved with Kitano, her interior decorator. What at first was nothing more than a simple flirtation quickly becomes a love affair in which the two have late night rendezvous at hotels. Miyako lets Kitano fill out his desires by taking nude photographs of her which he holds onto as a keepsake. When the negatives fall into the hands of Ginpei, a teacher who has been observing the couple for sometime, Miyako must track him down out of fear of her husband learning of her love affair.

Un chat égaré, une inconnue jouant de ses charmes au téléphone, ces événements anodins suffisent à faire basculer la vie de Toru Okada, jeune chômeur au foyer, dans un tourbillon d'aventures surprenantes. L'espace limité de son quotidien - une modeste maison de banlieue et un jardin voisin - devient le théâtre d'une quête métaphysique sans cesse renouvelée où rêves, réminiscences et réalités se confondent. …