这是一部典型的日本黑色幽默喜剧，影片的主人公佐平次是个骗子式的人物，影片描写他在江户时代环境恶劣的妓院里如何巧妙地施展骗术，在各种阶层的人物之间混饭吃的生存术来表现善良的有缺点的小人物。但是，这种笑是沉重的，伤感的。影片…

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself “already dead.”