Top Cast
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Kinuyo Tanaka
Fumie Matsukawa
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Ken Uehara
Tsumoru Sugawara
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Eijirō Tōno
Fumie's father
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Chieko Higashiyama
Fumie's mother
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Shozo Suzuki
Keiji
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Kuniko Igawa
Fumie's sister
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Eitarō Ozawa
Shimamoto
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Sachiko Murase
Fujie Sugawara
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Teruko Kishi
Overview
In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.
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