In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.
Keisuke Kinoshita
Director
Kinuyo Tanaka
Fumie Matsukawa
Ken Uehara
Tsumoru Sugawara
Eijirô Tôno
Kôhei, Fumie's father
Chieko Higashiyama
Fukiko, Fumie's mother
Kuniko Igawa
Kimiko, Fumie's sister