Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

Drama

Keiji Sada

(Ryoichi Morita)

Yoshiko Kuga

(Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife)

Hideko Takamine

(Yasuko, Ryoichi's sister)

Akira Ishihama

(Noboru, Ryoichi's brother)

Minoru Ōki

(Shun-don)

Toshiko Kobayashi

(Hisako, Shinkichi's sister)

Masami Taura

(Mr. Mitsui, Noboru's friend)

Kumeko Urabe

(Shige, Ryoichi's stepmother)

Chieko Nakakita

(Natsuko)

Eiko Miyoshi

Shinichi Himori

Ryôhei Uchida

(Shinkichi, Hiroko's friend)

Kaoru Nobe

Kazuko Okada

Jô Mitsumura

Mari Tanahashi

Jun Tanizaki

Teruko Ninomiya

Tsuneko Sasaki

Fumio Tooyama

Yoichi Osugi

Kayoko Terada

Masahiko Inoue

Keiji Tsuchida

Hisashi Taki

Yoshino Tani

Kayoko Muramatsu

Tami Yamamoto

Toshio Shimamura