Ayumi Hanibe

Kenji, who works alone, meets a young woman on his way home from work who is an AI robot who calls him "master". To avoid making his wife jealous, he suggests that If the robot looked like his mother there would be no way that she would have an issue.

À Kyoto, pendant le très animé Aoi Matsuri (Festival de la rose trémière), Tora découvre avec surprise que le vieil homme dont il a réparé la lanière d’une de ses geta (socques) est l’illustre potier Sakujiro Kanô (Nizaemon Kataoka), trésor national vivant. Chez ce dernier, travaille la belle Kagari (Ayumi Ishida), veuve et mère d’une fille qu’elle a confiée à sa mère vivant dans la péninsule de Tango pour pouvoir gagner sa vie. Lorsqu’elle apprend que l’homme dont elle est éprise se marie, Kagari quitte son emploi et rentre chez elle. Tora lui rend alors visite pour tenter de la consoler...

Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, seized with the idea that he too may disappear, has had a nervous breakdown. Aizawa suggests that Tatsuo recount his dreams as a means of solving the mystery, since human beings have an instinct that foretells the near future in the form of a dream. Keiko and Tatsuo eventually discover that the three disappearances have a strange connection…