Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is thrown out of the house for producing a son. Driven to a life of dissipation - his mistresses also fail to produce daughters - in the end he is just too tired to care.
Raizō Ichikawa
Kikuji
Ayako Wakao
Ponta
Fubuki Koshiji
Hisako
Mitsuko Kusabue
Ikako
Tamao Nakamura
Hiroko
Isuzu Yamada
Sei
Naritoshi Hayashi
Ganjirō Nakamura II
Kikue Mōri
Kino
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is thrown out of the house for producing a son. Driven to a life of dissipation - his mistresses also fail to produce daughters - in the end he is just too tired to care.
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