Dir.: George Matsuoka; Script: Hisashi Nozawa D'après le roman de/Based on the novel by: Teru Miyamoto; Phot.: Isao Ishii; Ed.: Yoshiyuki Okuhara; Mus.: Shigeru Umebayashi; Cast: Goro Kishitani, Yasufumi Terawaki, Yui Natsukawa, Isako Washio; Prod. & Sales: Akira Morishige, Haruo Umekawa, Tatsuro Hatanaka, Amuse Company Ltd., 12F Shibuya Infoss Tower, Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (Japon), tél.: (81-3) 5457 34 66, fax: (81-3) 5457 34 67.

It is difficult to buy your own house or your own apartment in contemporary Tokyo. Despite the great demand and the inflated prices, there are plenty of would-be buyers when new properties come up for sale. Yoshi and Roba are two the lucky ones. They beat the 76-to-1 odds and snag a small apartment in anew high-rise. Yoshi is a lighting designer who works for a large firm and would dearly love to be independent. Roba, a photographer, has a dream of going off to Nepal to shoot pictures of rare butterflies. One night, at a bar celebrating their acquisition of the apartment, they meet two women. Yoko, a fine hair stylist, is having a hard time making it in the city but she intends to continue the fight. Aiko, who works in a office, is timid, a bit neurotic and has difficulties getting along either in the city or with men. Chance brings these four people together and before long they are living together in Yoshi and Roba's new apartment. The closeness of their living conditions affects their relationships...