The wise old woman is about a young lord in a little village in japan who think the old people above 71 years old is not able to work or useless and he decided send them to the mountains and finish their lives over there, but a little farmer decided hide her old mother in a small room under his house in order to avoid the punishment from the lord and she is able to solve the problems the village had and the young lord accepted old people again in the village because of their wisdom.