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woman, that seeks to maintain the stability of her family, though her actions can be judge differently for allowing her husband to be with different women and petrifying the corruption and incorrect actions that he does. Not only her husband becomes a challenge in her life, but the relationship with her son Michimasa, who is not other than a slacker and grotesque character. For Tomo having both most important man in her life, as selfish, hypermasculine and unemotional man-makes seek for ways to avoid her grandson to become like them. As well as she stays on her house, to not only maintain the name of the Shirakawa’s without being dishonored, but to maintain the safety of the people around them, even though she never fits the idea of “good wife, …show more content…
Yumiko, Yoshie, Kuniko and Masako, are women that meet working in a meal factory on night time shifts, when Yoshie doesn’t handle anymore the living situation with her husband, and in a outburst of anger, she kills him and this will impact herself, family and friends to get into a situation that nobody would like to be in. Yoshie’s husband, a drunk and bettor indirectly pushes her wife to dehumanize herself. Though, after she has murder him and asked her closest friend Masako to get rid of the evidence, which she accomplish through dismembering his body, and throwing it around Tokyo, feels a sense of nostalgy as she believes that after all she was a good father for her two sons. While Masako, a cold blooded and though woman, that has lived with solemnity since her husband and her have lost any sort of idea of what living with a partner means. Furthermore, Masako’s son doesn’t make things easy as he gets constantly in trouble and has decided to leave school. Masako’s life is filled with uncertainty, and as she becomes Yoshie’s accomplice she starts to realize the impact that man through her life have had. In special Satake and Miyamori, two different man, Satake the owner of a club, and a rape and

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