A stop-motion animation featuring meticulously crafted paper cutouts. Loose representations of male and female figures dance around the frame in a dramatic play of gender studies and relationship highs and lows.
Though a piece of meat figures in this film the real subject is, before you judge something not just a steak, think twice, as for instance the way two people in a situation present themselves to each other.
In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from unscrupulous land developers.