A Japanese Tragedy

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.

5.3

116 min

Cast

Yūko Mochizuki

as Haruko Inoue

Keiji Sada

as Tatsuya

Teiji Takahashi

as Sato

Yōko Katsuragi

as Haruko's daughter

Sanae Takasugi

as Mrs. Akazawa

Ken Uehara

as Masayuki Akazawa

Keiko Awaji

as Wakamaru, a geisha

Shinichi Himori

Fujio Suga

as Fujita

Tanie Kitabayashi

as Ichizo's wife

Jun Tatara

Masami Taura

as Haruko's son

Eijirō Yanagi

as Iwami

Tokuji Kobayashi

Ryōko Mizuki

Toshiko Yabuki

Kunio Teshirogi

Tazuko Kusaka

Norikazu Takeda

Tomio Aoki

Keiko Enami

Yôshirô Kusakari

as Ichizo's son

Yoshino Tani

Hideaki Nagai

Director

Keisuke Kinoshita