Ugetsu

Potter Genjurō is a potter in Nakanogō, on the shore of Lake Biwa in Ōmi Province in the Sengoku period. He is accompanied by Tōbei, who dreams of becoming a samurai, and their wives are uprooted. The two couples travel across a lake, a boat appears from thick fog and warns them back to their homes. The sole passenger tells them he was attacked by pirates, warns them to return their wives to the shore, then dies.