©1959/2013 Shochiku Co., Ltd. JAPANESE (EN & TH Subs) *Subtitles Projection Several families live alongside each other in rows of small houses in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. One of them is home to the Hayashi family, comprised of office worker Keitaro, his wife Tamiko, her younger sister Setsuko, and their elementary school age sons Minoru and Isamu. The boys pester their parents to buy a television but to no avail, so they spend all their free time with the other neighborhood children ensconced in the home of a young couple with the only television on the block. Meanwhile, breaking wind becomes a fad among the local kids, and they pour their energies into trying different methods of producing flatulent sounds on command. Meanwhile, a minor dispute breaks out among the local housewives over fees for the local women's association. Tamiko admonishes Minoru and Isamu for persistently pleading for a television, and Keitaro angrily scolds them for saying unnecessary
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