A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
Cast
Chikage Awashima
Yae
Yōko Tsukasa
Miciko
Isao Kimura
Okawa
Keiju Kobayashi
Hatsuji
Kumi Mizuno
Hamako
Haruko Sugimura
Mother
Chōko Iida
Hidé
Hiroshi Tachikawa
Shinji
Michiyo Aratama
Unknown
Daisuke Katō
Unknown
Ganjirō Nakamura II
Wasuke
Kunio Otsuka
Unknown
Teruko Nagaoka
Unknown
Natsuko Kahara
Yasue
Ken Yamauchi
Unknown
Masao Oda
Unknown
Bontarō Miake
Patron
Noriko Honma
Unknown
Teruko Mita
Unknown
Akemi Ueno
Tetsuko
Michiko Fujii
Unknown
Takashi Itô
Unknown
Ikichi Ishii
Unknown
Yutaka Sada
Unknown
Crew
Mikio Naruse
Director
Shinobu Hashimoto
Screenplay
Tsutou Wada
Novel
Eiji Ooi
Editor
Masao Tamai
Director of Photography
Eizō Sugawa
Assistant Director
Sanezumi Fujimoto
Producer
Reiji Miwa
Producer
Satoru Chūko
Production Design
Makoto Sono
Production Design
Masanobu Miyazaki
Sound Recordist
Masao Fujiyoshi
Sound Recordist
Ichirō Saitō
Original Music Composer
Chōshirō Ishii
Gaffer
Takeharu Shimada
Production Manager
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