The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director, best actor (Morishige) and best actress (Awashima), and the Mainichi Concours award for best actor and best screenplay (Yasumi Toshio). It ranked second (after Naruse Mikio’s Ukigumo) on the Kinema Junpō top ten films for the year.
Hisaya Morishige
Chikage Awashima
Yōko Tsukasa
Haruo Tanaka
Eiko Miyoshi
Yoshiko Morikawa
Isao Yamagata
Kichijirō Ueda
Sonosuke Sawamura
Akira Tani
Noriko Honma
Ikio Sawamura
Shōichi Hirose
Katsumi Tezuka
Hideo Shibuya
Senkichi Ōmura
Chieko Naniwa
Makoto Kobori
Mineko Yorozuyo
Chūzaburō Wakamiya
Rikie Sanjō
Fukami Harue
Tateo Kawasaki
Choji Oka
Yaeko Izumo
Yoshiko Miyata
Shirō Tsuchiya