
1953 · Keisuke Kinoshita · 116 min
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
Yūko MochizukiHaruko Inoue
Keiji SadaTatsuya
Teiji TakahashiSato
Yōko KatsuragiHaruko's daughter
Sanae TakasugiMrs. Akazawa
Ken UeharaMasayuki Akazawa
Keiko AwajiWakamaru, a geisha
Shinichi Himori
Fujio SugaFujita
Tanie KitabayashiIchizo's wife
Jun Tatara
Masami TauraHaruko's son
Eijirō YanagiIwami
Tokuji Kobayashi
Ryōko Mizuki