Summer Women of Showa: Raw Stories of Wartime Gender Inequality

Synopsis

A Showa elegy. In any era, women remain women… Widows adorned with allure and sorrow that enchant men. Women of the Showa period who lived tenaciously while being toyed with by men. Even as they become playthings for men’s amusement, they struggle to live for the chance to meet their lovers. A kamikaze pilot near the end of the war and the women manipulated around him. The raw desire that permeates a rural village. With nowhere to turn, made into playthings, they gradually fall into pleasure…