

128 minutes
9/2/1958
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.

Chikage Awashima
as Yae

Yōko Tsukasa
as Miciko

Isao Kimura
as Okawa

Keiju Kobayashi
as Hatsuji

Kumi Mizuno
as Hamako

Haruko Sugimura
as Mother

Chōko Iida
as Hidé
Hiroshi Tachikawa
as Shinji

Michiyo Aratama

Daisuke Katō

Ganjirō Nakamura II
as Wasuke

Kunio Otsuka

Teruko Nagaoka

Natsuko Kahara
as Yasue

Ken Yamauchi

Masao Oda

Bontarō Miake
as Patron

Noriko Honma

Teruko Mita
Akemi Ueno
as Tetsuko
Michiko Fujii
Takashi Itô
Ikichi Ishii

Yutaka Sada