A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by his wife, one daughter is forced to marry an older man against her will, while the other has retreated into smug moral superiority.
Isuzu Yamada
Shōji Yasui
Sanae Nakahara
Yōko Katsuragi
Yūko Kusunoki
Misako Watanabe
Tomo'o Nagai
Kō Nishimura
Masami Shimojō
Tatsuo Matsushita
Keiko Amaji
Shinako Mine
Chikako Hosokawa
Yuji Odaka
Jūkichi Uno
Setsuko Amamiya
Takako Misawa
Sachiko Soma
Ken Hatano
Ikunosuke Koizumi
Keisuke Yukioka
Kyosuke Aihara
Nobuo Kawakami
Zenji Yamada
Takashi Sudo
Keiko Ushio
Keiko Hara
Kikuyo Suda
Mikiko Sakai
Makiko Aoi
Reiko Arai
Noriko Watanabe
Yukari Kishiro