82 minutes
7/29/1943
The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’ plan backfires when they come down with severe cases of conscience. Keisuke Kinoshita’s directorial debut is a breezy, warmhearted, and often very funny crowd-pleaser that’s a testament to the filmmaker’s faith in people.
Eitarō Ozawa
as Shuzo
Ken Uehara
as Tomekichi
Mitsuko Mito
as Oharu
Chishū Ryū
as Nobadama
Eijirō Tōno
as Hayashida
Takeshi Sakamoto
Yôsuke Hanzawa
as Ryôji Hirayu
Fusako Maki
as Setsuyo
Chieko Higashiyama
as Okano
Sachiko Murase
as O-yuki
Kanji Kawara
as Kesaji
Einosuke Naka
as Policeman
Shirō Ōsaka
as Eikichi
Morihiko Kezuka
as Engineer
Toshio Shimamura
as Janitor
Taeko Inoue
as Yuki's child