Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Manbei Kohayagawa is head of small sake brewery company, Fact2: daughter-in-law and youngest daughter live in Osaka, Fact3: husband helps at brewery, Fact4: Akiko meet friend of his at pub, Fact5: Manbei During sneaks out to meet old flame summer
Output (English): Manbei Kohayagawa Ganjiro Nakamura is the head of a small sake brewery company at Kyoto, with two daughters and a widowed daughterinlaw. His daughterinlaw, Akiko Setsuko Hara, and youngest daughter, Noriko Yoko Tsukasa, live together in Osaka. Akiko helps out at an art gallery and has a son Minoru. Noriko, unmarried, works as a salaried office worker. Manbeis other daughter, Fumiko Michiyo Aratama, lives with him. Her husband, Hisao, helps at the brewery and they have a young son Masao. Manbei asks his brotherinlaw Kitagawa Daisuke Kato to find Akiko a husband, and Kitagawa lets Akiko meet a friend of his, Isomura Eiichirou Hisaya Morishige, a widower, at a pub. Isomura is enthusiastic about the match but Akiko is hesitant. Manbei also asks Kitagawa to arrange a matchmaking session for his youngest daughter, Noriko. During summer Manbei sneaks out constantly to meet his old flame, a former mistress by the name of Sasaki Tsune Chieko Naniwa. Sasaki has a grownup, rather Westernized daughter Yuriko who may or may not be Manbeis own daughter. When Fumiko finds out Manbei has been seeing Sasaki again, she is angered and confronts her father, but Manbei denies the whole affair. The Kohayagawa family meets for a memorial service for their late mother at Arashiyama. After returning, Manbei has a heart attack but survives. Akiko asks Noriko about her matchmaking session with a man with a voracious appetite, but it appears Noriko is more inclined towards a friend Teramoto Akira Takarada, a lecturer who has just moved to Sapporo as an assistant professor. In a secret trip out with Sasaki to and back from Osaka, Manbei has another heart attack, and dies shortly after. Sasaki informs the daughters of what happened. The ailing Kohayagawa brewery is to be merged with a business rivals, while Noriko decides to go to Sapporo to search out Teramoto. At the films end, the Kohayagawa family gathers and reminisces about Manbeis life as his body is cremated.