
94 minutes
1/3/1962
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem far ahead of its time.

Chōchō Miyako
as Sato

Tanie Kitabayashi
as Kumi

Chōko Iida
as Hana

Kumeko Urabe
as Waka

Izumi Hara
as Hatsu

Sachiko Murase

Teruko Kishi

Chieko Higashiyama

Takahiro Tamura

Junzaburō Ban

Tatsuo Saitō

Masao Oda

Bokuzen Hidari

Zeko Nakamura
Kinichi Shimizu
Shojiro Ogasawara
Reizaburo Yamamoto

Kan Yanagiya

Taiji Tonoyama

Kichijirō Ueda

Ichirō Sugai

Yukiyo Toake
Mari Saotome

Chieko Seki

Etsuko Ichihara

Sadako Sawamura

Norihei Miki

Fumio Watanabe

Kiyoshi Atsumi

Shoichi Ozawa

Isao Kimura

Atsushi Watanabe