DOLLS

Dolls tells three stories of ill-fated love. Matsumoto (Nishijima) is in love with Sawako (Kanno), but chooses to marry his boss's daughter instead so he can get ahead in the world. After Sawako attempts suicide and loses her mind, Matsumoto chooses to do penance by giving up everything to take care of her. Yakuza boss Hiro (Mihashi) left his love (Matsubara) long ago in order to make something of himself; she promised she would come to the park to wait for him every Saturday, and he is shocked when he returns to the bench decades later and finds her there, with his lunch. And traffic worker Nukui (Tsutomu Takeshige) is so dedicated to young pop sensation Haruna (real-life pop sensation Kyoko Fukada) that he makes a bizarre sacrifice after she is partially blinded in an accident.