The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war with a crippling injury, and then forced into marriage with him. In four more chapters, presented over three decades, their children undertake their own searches for love, while the parents try to make each other as miserable as possible.
Hideko Takamine
Keiji Sada
Tatsuya Nakadai
Nobuko Otowa
Akira Ishihama
Masakazu Tamura
Yukiko Fuji
Kiyoshi Nonomura
Yoshi Katō
Yasushi Nagata
Torahiko Hamada
Masaya Totsuka
Eijirō Tōno