Honey Sorrow

In an antique Japanese-style house, an elderly writer (played by Osugi Ren) lives alone. He once wrote many beautiful and sad words, but now his physical and mental state is not as good as before. Aging day by day makes the writer exude a sense of desolation. I don’t know how long ago, the deserted house suddenly became lively. Unknowingly, there was a cheering girl beside the old man. The girl's name is Ako (played by Fumi Nikaido). She wears red clothes all day long, sometimes running around on the tatami, sometimes talking to the old man, and sleeping with him at night, closely connected. Rumors and speculation about Ako spread like wildfire, but few knew her true identity. It turns out that the innocent child is a goldfish that the old writer has kept for three years. For some reason, he transformed into a human form and brought comfort to the old man. However, the peaceful life of the old and young couple was soon broken. The old man's friend Akutagawa Ryunosuke (Kora Kengo), the goldfish seller (Nagase Masatoshi), and the woman the old man once loved - Yuriko (Yoko Maki) who had become a ghost appeared one after another, throwing his life into chaos...