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Summary

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

Details

Release Date: November 3, 1953

Runtime: 137 minutes

Genres: Drama

Rating: 8.2/10 (1202 votes)


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Cast

  • Chishū Ryū

    Chishū Ryū

    Shukichi Hirayama

  • Chieko Higashiyama

    Chieko Higashiyama

    Tomi Hirayama

  • Setsuko Hara

    Setsuko Hara

    Noriko Hirayama

  • Haruko Sugimura

    Haruko Sugimura

    Shige Kaneko

  • So Yamamura

    So Yamamura

    Koichi Hirayama

  • Kuniko Miyake

    Kuniko Miyake

    Fumiko Hirayama

  • Kyōko Kagawa

    Kyōko Kagawa

    Kyoko Hirayama

  • Eijirō Tōno

    Eijirō Tōno

    Numata

  • Nobuo Nakamura

    Nobuo Nakamura

    Kurazo Kaneko

  • Shirō Ōsaka

    Shirō Ōsaka

    Keizo Hirayama

  • Hisao Toake

    Hisao Toake

    Osamu Hattori

  • Teruko Nagaoka

    Teruko Nagaoka

    Yone Hattori

  • Mutsuko Sakura

    Mutsuko Sakura

    Oden Restaurant Woman

  • Toyo Takahashi

    Toyo Takahashi

    Woman Next Door

  • Tōru Abe

    Tōru Abe

    Railway Staff

  • Sachiko Mitani

    Sachiko Mitani

    Apartment Owner

  • Ryōko Mizuki

    Ryōko Mizuki

    Beauty Salon Customer

  • Keijirō Morozumi

    Keijirō Morozumi

    Policeman

  • Zen Murase

    Zen Murase

    Minoru Hirayama

  • Tomoka Hasebe

    Tomoka Hasebe

    Mahjong Player