A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring, the sympathetic housekeeper suggests that the Master observe the Yobai , a custom in which the young men of a village steal into the bedrooms of susceptible women to have sex.
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Kindai Eiga Kyokai
- Keyword: ritual, widow, confession, impotence, war victim, landscape, housemaid, war widow, slow burning
- Cast: Hideo Kanze, Nobuko Otowa, Eimei Esumi, Daigo Kusano, Nobuko Miyamoto, Yoshinobu Ogawa