Ai no Onimotsu

[Machine Translation] Yuzo Kawashima's first film for Nikkatsu! Based on a French play, this adult comedy film combines satire and humanism in the Kawashima style. Special low-priced edition to commemorate "the 100th anniversary of Yuzo Kawashima's birth"! --The postwar baby boom. Minister of Health and Welfare Shinki Joizaburo (Yamamura Satoshi), who wanted to stop the population increase, introduced a measure called the "Bill for Establishment of Fertility Control Counseling Center". However, while Shinki was making his big speech on population reduction at the Health and Welfare Committee meeting, his forty-eight year old wife Ranko (Yukiko Minami) was told by her obstetrician that she is pregnant! Not only that, the eldest son of the Shinki family, Jotaro ( Tatsuya Mihashi ), is told by Jotaro's secretary Saeko Godai ( Mie Kitahara ), with whom he has been secretly in love for some time, that he has a love package. Sakura (Tomoko Taka), the youngest daughter, who is about to get married, actually cannot wait to get married and has a love baggage with her ex-marriage, Kamenosuke Dewanokoji (Frankie Sakai). To his surprise, even the 80-year old Jozo O ( Eijiro Higashino ), the Shinki family's retired head of household, has a love affair with a young tea-drinking friend, and is afraid that he may become a burden. When Jozaburo goes on a tour of Kyoto, he is visited by his former lover Some Kaida (Isuzu Yamada), and is shocked to learn of the existence of a child with her... Picture disc specification (planned).

Special Feature / Bonus Track: trailer(s) (subject to change)

川島雄三の日活第一回作品! フランス戯曲をモチーフに、風刺とヒューマニズムが一体となった川島流大人の喜劇映画。「川島雄三生誕100周年」を記念する特別廉価版! ――戦後ベビーブーム。人口の増加を食い止めようと考えていた、時の厚生大臣新木錠三郎(山村聰)は、「受胎調節相談所設置法案」の施策を講じる。ところが、錠三郎が厚生委員議会で、人口軽減に関する大演説を行っている頃、四十八歳になる蘭子夫人(軣夕起子)が産婦人科で妊娠を告げられていた! そればかりか、新木家の長男錠太郎君(三橋達也)は、かねてから秘かに恋愛中だった、錠三郎の秘書五代冴子さん(北原三枝)から、愛のお荷物ができたらしいと打明けられる。結婚式を控えた、末娘さくら(高友子)も、実は近づく結婚が待ち切れず、許婚の出羽小路亀之助君(フランキー堺)との間に、愛のお荷物が出来てしまっていたのだ。その上驚いたことに、新木家の御隠居、八十歳になる錠造翁(東野英治郎)までが、若い茶飲み友達との間に、お荷物ができかねない有様である。そんな中、京都へ遊説に行った錠三郎は、かつての恋人貝田そめ(山田五十鈴)に訪問され、彼女との間に出来た子供の存在を知らされて愕然となる・・・。ピクチャーディスク仕様(予定)。

映像特典(予定): 予告篇