noriko calmly accepts this sexual content when couched in the "archaic" form of noh drama, but when she sees her father nod politely to the attractive widow, mrs. miwa, who is also in the audience, "that strikes noriko as outrageous and outraging. had this woman and her father arranged to meet at this play about sexuality? is this remarriage 'filthy' like [onodera's] remarriage? she feels both angry and despairing. she is so mad at her father that, quite uncharacteristically, she angrily walks away from him after they leave the theater." holland thus sees one of the film's main themes as "the pushing of traditional and inhibited noriko into marriage."