
130 minutes
9/7/1974
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.

Nobuko Otowa
as Mino Kawamura

Taiji Tonoyama
as Yoshizo Kawamura

Rokkō Toura
as Saito

Chōichirō Kawarasaki
as Kobayakawa's father

Rie Yokoyama
as Sakiko
Miki Kojika
as Yoshiko Kawamura

Eiji Okada
as Lawyer

Fumio Watanabe
as Lawyer

Akira Yamanouchi
as Umina
Masami Horiuchi
as Lawyer
Dai Kanai
as Kiyoshi Kawamura

Kazunaga Tsuji
as Lawyer

Hideo Sato
as Goro Kawamura

Noboru Matsuhashi
as Takeo Hoshi

Jiro Kawarazaki
as Teacher Morikawa
Teruo Matsuyama
as Police

Leo Morimoto
as Dr. Gondo

Kei Satō
as Koide, Chief of Police
Bin Moritsuka
as Tomekichi Kawamura

Jūzō Itami
as Dr. Takagi

Junkichi Orimoto
as Yamada

Akira Ōizumi
as Hamaguchi

Arihiro Fujimura
as Yabe

Emiko Azuma
as Kume Kwamura
Tatsuo Matsushita
as Lawyer

Kotoe Hatsui
as Kobayakawa's mother
Naoji Iwata
Chūzaburō Wakamiya
as Undertaker
Kiyoto Harada
as Manager Tsushima
Yuichi Yokozawa

Kōji Nakata
as Tanabe

Moeko Ezawa
as Tamayo Nakano

Eimei Esumi
as Oofuji
Eiken Shoji
Masako Tomiyama
as Nurse Iwayama
Shōji Ōki
Tsutomu Akashi
as Lawyer
Jiro Daimaru

Sakae Umezu
as Police

Eitarō Ozawa
as Medical University professor

Jūkichi Uno
as Narrator (voice)