Strange Weather in TokyoTsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the pair continue to meet occasionally to share food and drink sake, and as the seasons passfrom spring cherry blossom to autumnal mushroomsTsukiko and Sensei come to develop a hesitant intimacy which tilts