Eijiro Tono as Sanpei Numata; S� Yamamura as Koichi Hirayama; Chishu Ryu as Shukishi Hirayama; Ky�ko Kagawa as Kyoko Hirayama; Haruko Sugimura as Shige Kaneko; Nobuo Nakamura as Kurazo Kaneko; Toru Abe as Train employee; Kuniko Miyake as Fumiko Hirayama - his wife; Setsuko Hara as Noriko Hirayama; Toyo Takahashi as Shukichi Hirayama's Neighbor; Binnosuke Nagao as Doctor at Onomichi; Mutsuko Sakura as Patron of the Oden Restaurant; Chieko Higashiyama as Tomi Hirayama; Hisao Toake as Osamu Hattori; Shiro Osaka as Keiso Hirayama
Rating
NR (Not Rated)
Cinematography
Yuuharu Atsuta
Language
Japanese
Plot
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.