Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she was just a baby. No one knows the first thing about the artist who painted it, but he goes by the name Shiro Sofue, and he's always wearing shades in the daytime...

• Shintoho Company
• Shigeru Amachi
• Keinosuke Wada
• Junko Ikeuchi
• Yōko Mihara
• Akira Nakamura
• Kan Sugi
• Den Kunikata
• Tsutomu Wakui