Tokyo Omnibus

The story tells of Tsuchiya a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twentyseven Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmongers son