
1951 · Kenji Mizoguchi · 94 min
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.
Kinuyo TanakaOyû Kayukawa
Nobuko OtowaShizu
Yūji HoriShinnosuke Seribashi
Kiyoko HiraiOsumiReiko KongōOtsugi Kayukawa
Eijirō YanagiEitaro
Eitarō ShindōKusaemon
Kanae KobayashiNannyFumihiko YokoyamaBook-keeper
Jun FujikawaBook-keeperSōji ShibataBook-keeperInosuke KuharaBoyYoshiko FujishiroWaitress
Shōzō NanbuDoctor
Midori KomatsuHostess