At the end of the 20th century, Umezawa Ewha (Riki Miyazawa), who works for the Wakaba Bank, becomes a regular employee and has just taken a high amount of business from the elderly Kozo Hirabayashi (Ryōji Ishibashi), and she still has the charm to lead Inoue (Yoshimasa Kondo). It's just that Ewha's heart seems to hide all kinds of dissatisfaction and depression, she and her gentle husband (Seiichi Tanabe) have been married for many years, and have never had children, and there is a great distance under the appearance of the couple respecting each other. After meeting Mitsuta (Ikematsu Shoryo), the grandson of the elder Hirabayashi, Ewha's heart suddenly becomes cold, and she also has a unrequited love affair with him. She began to tremble and try to chase the dreamy happiness, and for this reason, she did not hesitate to extend her hand to the depositors' depositors. At the top of the Tower of Happiness, she and Hikari were too drunk to dream of death, but when the dream woke up, the Tower of Happiness collapsed...
If you want to see the story of the plot twists and turns, it is quite disappointing. The whole film is bland and unobtrusive, presenting a very indifferent tone and character emotions, and this is not an "eye-catching" or exciting movie. But it is a movie that is boring to watch for the first time, feel cold when you watch it for the second time, smile when you watch it for the third time, and draw strength from it for the fourth time. Every character in the film is performed to the point where it doesn't look like a performance at all, it's exactly like I'm acting in person, which alone is very rare, no role is not needed, no shot is superfluous.
Director Yoshida has made a total of 5 films, three of which have won awards, and almost all the themes of the films are directly approaching the human struggle of modern society, and the mutual crushing and struggle between human nature and society has almost become the only theme. The film is ostensibly for vanity and greed for money, but it is actually a different perspective on the world. Family, sex, and materialism are not equal to the unfettered free body. Only Japanese vitality remains but no soul. Paper Moon is like a dream free to break through the shackles of reality, unveil the secrets of everyone's heart, and also said an important secret of the laws of the world: that is, there are some small people who are unmotivated, he has encountered many walls in society, he has seen more ugliness in the world, and finally she decided to be a bad person, to fight ugliness with ugliness; but he is about to be destroyed, and then she will find that the ugliness she thought was not targeted by you for a moment, only she herself is a cowardly bad person.