Drama
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
Directed by
Mikio Naruse
Kumi Mizuno
Hamako
Keiju Kobayashi
Hatsuji
Daisuke Katō
Michiyo Aratama
Haruko Sugimura
Mother
Yōko Tsukasa
Miciko
Chikage Awashima
Yae
Hiroshi Tachikawa
Shinji
Isao Kimura
Okawa
Chōko Iida
Hidé
Natsuko Kahara
Yasue
Ganjirō Nakamura II
Wasuke
Yutaka Sada
Bontarō Miake
Patron
Masao Oda
Ken Yamauchi
Teruko Nagaoka
Kunio Ôtsuka
Teruko Mita
Noriko Honma
Akemi Ueno
Tetsuko
Michiko Fujii
Takashi Itô
Ikichi Ishii

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