Kanazawa in the Taisho era. A former junior high school student, Ichiro's family used to be a large landowner, but now they are living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.
Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Hitomi Nozoe
Kinuyo Tanaka
Kyōko Kagawa
Keizō Kawasaki
Shin Saburi
Taiji Tonoyama
Ryōsuke Kagawa
Masao Shimizu
Kuniko Miyake
Kyū Sazanka
Tamae Kiyokawa
Kichijirō Ueda
Fumiko Murata
Masaya Tsukida
Keiko Anjô
Yosuke Irie
Mitsuko Takesato
Osamu Takizawa
Kenji Oyama
Gen Harada
Bontarō Miake
Mantarō Ushio
Manabu Morita
Fumiko Okamura
Kinzō Shin
Eitarō Ozawa
Eiichi Takamura
Toshiko Kagiyama
Reiko Shirai
Reiko Shimohira
Mitsuko Han'ya
Ryûko Akutagawa
Yoshiko Kusunoki
Toshiko Kisaragi
Michiko Takano
Hikaru Hoshi
Kōichi Fujiyama
Shiroyuki Miyajima
Kazuko Miyakawa
Naoko Matsudaira
Junko Koizumi