Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
Hideko Takamine
Masayuki Mori
Reiko Dan
Tatsuya Nakadai
Daisuke Katō
Ganjirō Nakamura II
Eitarō Ozawa
Keiko Awaji
Chieko Nakakita
Jun Tatara
Yū Fujiki
Masao Oda
Ken Mitsuda
Chikako Hosokawa
Sadako Sawamura
Kyū Sazanka
Noriko Sengoku
Kin Sugai
Toshiko Higuchi
Noriko Honma
Natsuko Kahara
Machiko Kitagawa
Takuzō Kumagai
Fumie Noguchi
Yutaka Sada
Akira Sera
Toki Shiozawa
Ayumi Sonoda
Yoshifumi Tajima
Akira Tani
Mitsuo Tsuda
Haruko Tōgō
Keiko Yanagawa
Michino Yokoyama
Akiko Wakabayashi
Rumi Konishi
Kyoko Mori