In Ozu Yasujirō’s film Sanma no aji (An Autumn Afternoon), released by Shochiku in 1962, old classmates gather at a ryōtei. Their invited guest, Sakuma, nicknamed Hyōtan, the Gourd, eats and drinks heartily.
Later, Sakamoto takes Hirayama to the bar Izumi. Over drinks he asks why Japan lost the war, and he tells how hard things were for him after the war and how he married off his two daughters.