Tsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and goes to Tottori, on the Japan Sea coast, to enter a high school. On the beach, he meets a young fisherman, Yusuke (Norihiko Yamamoto) also a student of the same school. They become friends and Tsutomu is offered free board at Yusuke's home.
Kensaku Morita
Tsutomu Araki
Eiko Takehara
Kazuko Matsubara
Tomomi Satō
Akiko Yamazaki
Kyoko Yoshizawa
Michiko Matsubara
Toshihiko Yamamoto
Yusuke Inoue
Takashi Kanda
Gozo Matsubara
Asao Sano
Vice-principal Sugiyama
Rinichi Yamamoto
Teacher Mayama
Asao Uchida
Principal Kuroki
Tsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and goes to Tottori, on the Japan Sea coast, to enter a high school. On the beach, he meets a young fisherman, Yusuke (Norihiko Yamamoto) also a student of the same school. They become friends and Tsutomu is offered free board at Yusuke's home.
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