Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.
Setsuko Hara
Toshirō Mifune
Yōko Sugi
Hisaya Morishige
Murasaki Fujima
Hiroshi Koizumi
Nijiko Kiyokawa
Kazuo Masubuchi
Chōko Iida
Reikichi Kawamura
Hisao Toake
Sadako Sawamura
Kamatari Fujiwara
Kan Yanagiya
Keiju Kobayashi
Daisuke Inoue
Fumiko Okamura
Shōichi Hirose
Yutaka Nakayama
Fuyuki Murakami
Yoshio Kosugi
Sachio Sakai
Keiichirô Katsumoto
Ren Yamamoto
Shigeo Katô
Keiji Sakakida
Teruko Mita
Suzuko Takayama
Haruna Kaburagi