The Heart

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past.

Drama

Masayuki Mori

(Nobuchi)

Michiyo Aratama

(Shizu, Nobuchi's wife)

Tatsuya Mihashi

(Kaji)

Shōji Yasui

(Hioki Jiro)

Tanie Kitabayashi

(Hioki's mother)

Akiko Tamura

(Shizu's mother)

Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru

(Hioki's father)

Tsutomu Shimomoto

(Hioki's elder brother)

Masami Shimojō

(Employment agent)

Tomoko Naraoka

(Kume, the maid)

Akira Hisamatsu

(Travelling monk)

Zenji Yamada

(Nobuchi's uncle)

Keiji Itami

(Kaji's father)

Kiyoshi Kamoda

(Doctor)

Nobuo Kawakami

(Undertaker)

Kaoru Yamamoto

(Lady of the lodgings)