When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears.

1968 film by Shōhei Imamura

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.

Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care for him as new events occur every day.