A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him, until an indentured peasant prostitute, Tamarazu, takes the unsavoury assignment and treats him with brash tenderness.
Chiezō Kataoka
Yoshie Mizutani
Isao Kimura
Minoru Chiaki
Shinobu Chihara
Kogiku Hanayagi
Hiroshi Mizuno
Tsukie Matsuura
Eijirō Kataoka
Kyoko Aoyama
Fumiko Okamura
Kensaku Hara
Sadako Sawamura
Harue Tone
Masao Mishima
Toyo Takahashi
Kogiku Hanayagi
Yachiyo Kirishima
Harumi Matsukaze
Shinnosuke Ogata
Hiroshi Kato
Kusuo Abe
Ryuji Kita
Gorô Naniwa
Kyōnosuke Murai
Mineko Maruhira
Kinnosuke Takamatsu
Kisho Nomura
Chieko Taki
Kunijirō Yanagi
Shirō Osaki
Yoshiko Yashioji