In both movies the main characters, Boku in "fish on land" and Shinichi in "his lost name" are found by local people of small rural villages and decide to stay with them for a while. Both films focus on the relationship between an older man and a younger man that seems to kind of represents him, Seiji with Boku on the first movie and Tetsuro with Shinichi on the other. Both movies are quiet and the atmosphere is quite heavy.