The Gate

Synopsis

An nyrb classics originala humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having married without their families’ consent, and unable to have children of their own, sōsuke and oyone find the delicate equilibrium of their household upset by a new obligation to meet the educational expenses of sōsuke’s brash younger brother.