She and her daughter-in-law subsist while her son is abroad at war by killing samurai who enter their marsh and selling the valuable items they find. Their grief is compounded when they learn of Kichi's death; however, his wife soon initiates an affair with Hachi, a neighbor who managed to survive the war. Her daughter-in-mother law's disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her with a weird mask from the body of a deceased samurai.
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She and her daughter-in-law subsist while her son is abroad at war by killing samurai who enter their marsh and selling the valuable items they find. Their grief is compounded when they learn of Kichi's death; however, his wife soon initiates an affair with Hachi, a neighbor who managed to survive the war. Her daughter-in-mother law's disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her with a weird mask from the body of a deceased samurai.
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