The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
Chishū Ryū
Chieko Higashiyama
Setsuko Hara
Haruko Sugimura
Sō Yamamura
Kuniko Miyake
Kyōko Kagawa
Eijirō Tōno
Nobuo Nakamura
Shirō Ōsaka
Hisao Toake
Teruko Nagaoka
Mutsuko Sakura
Toyo Takahashi
Tōru Abe
Sachiko Mitani
Ryōko Mizuki
Keijirō Morozumi
Shozo Suzuki
Haruko Chichibu
Takashi Miki
Toshinosuke Nagao
Zen Murase
Mitsuhiro Môri
Yoshiko Togawa
Fumio Tooyama
Tomoka Hasebe