视频简介
儿女们都大了，各自成家。父亲周吉（笠智众饰）和老伴（东山千荣子饰）要去东京看望他们，老两口带着愉快心情上路。可另一边，还没等他们到大儿子家，孙子就因为爷爷奶奶到来腾地方哭闹不停。老人开始觉得尴尬，大儿子幸一（山村聪饰）在东京当医生，二女儿繁（杉村春子饰）在东京开美容店，二儿媳纪子（原节子饰），小女儿京子（香川京子饰）外，大阪还有三子敬三。 东京让老人陌生，在儿女家也好不到哪去。大儿子工作繁忙，没时间带他们出去玩。搬到女儿家，依旧每日困守且有矛盾。老两口渐渐也明白儿女们的处境，他们在东京的老友也过得不好。只有守寡的儿媳纪子对老人很是孝顺。之后老人踏上回家的路，前后不过十天……。Bipedalism, or 'two-footed walking', is the story of a painter who grew up in an orphanage and only years later learns the circumstances of his father's disappearance and death. Childhood memories bring the main character back to the past: he buys a house in the suburbs that used to belong to his family. In the basement, he finds his father's archives and scientific research documents on the hybridization of human race with related biological species. Studying the archive material, he unexpectedly finds evidence of efforts to renew the experiments on the remaining hybrid population. The painter then becomes a researcher, and consequently a victim. The basic idea of his father's research was to change, control and influence the process of human evolution - initially connected with eugenics theories of the period before World War II, and now being placed in a context of modern 'biotechnological' expectations by his former colleagues. The main character tries to recreate and realize his father's heritage, who was forced to cooperate with state terror organizations, using the results of his secret research. In a tragic manner, this information turns into the main character's reality, at first forcing him to reappraise his father's values and later driving him to madness. (http://www.input2002.com/en/film/24418.html)。