
1955 · Kon Ichikawa · 120 min
In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past.
Masayuki MoriNobuchi
Michiyo AratamaShizu, Nobuchi's wife
Tatsuya MihashiKaji
Shōji YasuiHioki Jiro
Tanie KitabayashiHioki's mother
Akiko TamuraShizu's motherMutsuhiko TsurumaruHioki's father
Tsutomu ShimomotoHioki's elder brother
Masami ShimojōEmployment agent
Tomoko NaraokaKume, the maidAkira HisamatsuTravelling monk
Zenji YamadaNobuchi's uncleKeiji ItamiKaji's fatherKiyoshi KamodaDoctor
Nobuo KawakamiUndertaker