

97 minutes
7/15/1952
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.

Setsuko Hara
as Yuki

Toshirō Mifune
as Kurokawa

Yōko Sugi
as Harumi

Hisaya Morishige
as Akazawa

Murasaki Fujima
as Konatsu

Hiroshi Koizumi
as Shôtarô

Nijiko Kiyokawa
as Tsuruko

Kazuo Masubuchi
as Chûkichi

Chōko Iida
as Matsuyo

Reikichi Kawamura
as Yamamoto

Hisao Toake
as Jewelry shop proprietor

Sadako Sawamura
as Jewelry shop proprietress

Kamatari Fujiwara
as Aoyama

Kan Yanagiya
as Doctor

Keiju Kobayashi

Daisuke Inoue
as Dai

Fumiko Okamura

Shōichi Hirose

Yutaka Nakayama

Fuyuki Murakami

Yoshio Kosugi

Sachio Sakai

Keiichirō Katsumoto

Ren Yamamoto

Shigeo Katō

Keiji Sakakida

Teruko Mita
Suzuko Takayama
Haruna Kaburagi