In an old-fashioned Japanese-style house, an elderly writer (played by Ryo Osugi) lives alone. He once wrote many beautiful and poignant words and phr[Expand All]
In an old-fashioned Japanese-style house, an elderly writer (played by Ryo Osugi) lives alone. He once wrote many beautiful and poignant words and phrases, but now his physical and mental state is far from what it used to be. Day by day, aging has made the writer exude a touch of desolation all over. It's unknown when the once quiet house suddenly became lively. Unconsciously, a jubilant girl appeared by the old man's side. The girl's name is Akiko (played by Tomomi Nikaido). She wears a red dress all day long. Sometimes she runs around on the tatami, sometimes she chats with the old man back and forth, and at night she sleeps in his arms, inseparable. Rumors and speculations about Chi Zi spread like wildfire, but few people knew her true identity. It turned out that the child was a goldfish that the old writer had raised for three years. For some reason, it transformed into a human form to bring comfort to the old man. However, the peaceful life of this old and young couple was soon disrupted. The old man's friend, Akutagawa Ryunosuke (played by Kenji Takahashi), the man selling goldfish (played by Masatoshi Nagase), and the woman the old man once loved - Yuriko (played by Yoko Maki), who has now turned into a ghost, appeared one after another, plunging his life into chaos...[Collapse]
