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Seven-year-old Fumie, the third daughter of a kimono shop owner in Shimane, though normally reserved, takes off alone to be at her ailing aunt’s side.

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A boy saves Fumie from a spirit on her way home from Yasugi. She finds the encounter exciting, but her family panics upon noticing her absence.

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Fumie turns ten as the war creeps closer to town. She is self-conscious about her tall stature and thinks about not dancing at the summer festival.

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Fumie’s grandmother encourages her to dance at the festival. Fumie’s sister Yukie gets into a fight with their father concerning marriage.

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Yukie decides to run away after her father crosses the line. Fumie asks Yukie’s prospective marriage partner Yokoyama to reconsider his offer.

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Yokoyama helps Fumie fetch the doctor to save her mother’s life. Fumie vouches for Yokoyama when Yukie badmouths him without knowing the truth.

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Fumie is now 21 but still shy as she receives a marriage offer. Her friend Chiyoko suggests spying on her prospective husband to see what he’s like.

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Yukie’s happy household inspires Fumie with her own dreams of marriage, but the marriage offer is cancelled due to her height.

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Fumie’s father and grandmother have an argument about the family business. Fumie’s grandmother offers words of advice after suffering a stroke.

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Fumie is 28. Her brother has gotten married and she starts to feel uncomfortable living at home. Chiyoko invites Fumie to help her sell instant ramen.

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Fumie’s nerves get the better of her during her ramen venture. A new marriage prospect arrives just as Fumie begins to feel unneeded around the house.

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Fumie’s father tries to conceal her height to avoid making a bad impression. Talks proceed despite concerns about her suitor’s age and career choice.

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Fumie’s suitor is Shigeru Murai, a cartoonist living in Tokyo. His hasn’t produced a hit and he has no desire to marry, but his parents urge him on.

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Fumie is both excited and worried about her upcoming meeting with her suitor. Meanwhile, Shigeru has trouble procuring something nice to wear.

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The Iida household makes frantic, last minute preparations for the marriage meeting. Shigeru arrives with his parents and the matchmaking begins.

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Fumie stands up and reveals her tall stature despite her father’s best efforts to conceal her height. Regardless, Shigeru’s parents offer a proposal.

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There is a whirlwind of preparations to make when Fumie and Shigeru’s wedding gets scheduled to take place five days from their first meeting.

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Fumie and Chiyoko reminisce about their childhood on the day before her wedding. Fumie gives her father a farewell speech and her wedding day arrives.

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Shigeru’s mother is indignant at her son’s blasé attitude on his own wedding day. Fumie becomes very nervous. Shigeru, on the other hand...

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Shigeru passes gas and drinks more than he can handle during the rather unconventional wedding banquet. Fumie is entrusted with the care of Shigeru.

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Shigeru tells Fumie a strange tale on their wedding night. Fumie gets a strong impression of her quirky in-laws the next day over breakfast.

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Everyone but her father comes to the train station to say to see Fumie off. The newlyweds bump into Shigeru’s old friend on their way to Tokyo.

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Fumie and Shigeru finally shake Uraki off at Tokyo Station and head to their home in a fancy car. Fumie had expected to live in the big city, but...

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Shigeru welcomes Fumie to his dilapidated home, then proceeds to hole up in his office. His brother and bill collectors come knocking shortly after.

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Fumie and Shigeru start their newlywed life. A woman at the shopping district helps Fumie catch the thief who stole her purse.

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Fumie is shocked when Shigeru’s brother brings his whole family to use their bath. Later, Fumie bumps into the thief and the woman who stopped him.

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Uraki shows up out of the blue to ask the Murais to sublet a room to a struggling cartoonist named Nakamori. Shigeru accepts his unreasonable request.

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Fumie learns that Shigeru leads a more austere lifestyle than she had first thought. Shigeru scolds Fumie for cleaning his cluttered room.

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Fumie is moved by Michiko’s kindness towards the man who stole her purse. Shigeru delights Fumie by buying her a bicycle of her own.

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Shigeru and Fumie go to the Jindaiji Temple for their first ever date and talk about their initial impressions of each other at their first meeting.

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Struggling cartoonist Inui visits the Murais and passionately heaps praise upon Shigeru’s cartoons. Fumie visits Shigeru’s publisher, and...

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President Tomita appears to be scheming something with Uraki at the publisher’s office. Fumie meets a young man who loves her husband’s work.

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Uraki asks Shigeru to make his war comics more palatable for the fan club he wants to start, but Shigeru only wants to show the grim realities of war.

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Fumie and Shigeru work together to create the fan club newsletters, but the club gets put on hold when Uraki’s mail-order enterprise ends in failure.

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Fumie and Shigeru lose heart over what happened to the fan club. Shigeru’s publisher receives a request to reinstate Shigeru’s “Kitaro” series.

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Shigeru throws himself into work after the reinstatement of his “Kitaro” series. Fumie is frustrated at her inability to help him with his work.

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Michiko learns Fumie is the wife of the artist who created the “Kitaro” series. Later that evening, Uraki resurfaces and gets an earful from Shigeru.

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Tomita makes no effort to pay Shigeru for his work and the Murais struggle to make ends meet. Shigeru’s old friend suddenly drops by for a visit.

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Fumie learns about stories behind “Kitaro” and Shigeru’s pen name as she listens to Shigeru and Otomatsu talk about the past.

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Otomatsu seems to have something to say to Shigeru and Fumie; Uraki says that Otomatsu has come to Tokyo to borrow money from friends.

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Fumie is shocked to learn Otomatsu came to borrow money. Shigeru wants to help, but he has no source of income after severing ties with Tomita.

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Fumie and Shigeru search for Otomatsu and find him trying to sell his precious paper play paraphernalia. Shigeru helps Otomatsu get to Kyushu.

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