Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of their widowed father's wedding to his chosen bride, Maki Tsuneko (Sadako Sawamura), who's anxious about her conduct as the bride.
Setsuko Hara
Yoshiko
Yôko Yaguchi
Asako
Kō Mihashi
Sadako Sawamura
Tamae Kiyokawa
Yo Shiomi
Yuriko Hanabusa
Haruko Sugimura
Heihachirō Ōkawa
Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of their widowed father's wedding to his chosen bride, Maki Tsuneko (Sadako Sawamura), who's anxious about her conduct as the bride.
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