Based on a true story Yoshiko and Yuriko relates the journey and great love affair of Yoshiko who was a renowned translator of Russian literature and drama and Yuriko who was a feminist novelist and great activist of the postwar democratic literature movement Both have left huge marks on Japanese literary history The two women shared a strong attraction to each other from their first meeting and enjoyed a powerful love affair Yoshiko reveals that shes an out lesbian whilst Yuriko is married not altogether happily to a wellknown scholar a situation she cant walk away from with ease