is a 1956 Japanese

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...

written and directed by Kaneto Shindo. It is based on a novel of the same name by Torahiko Tamiya.

Cast

Nobuko Otowa was a Japanese actress who appeared in more than 100 films between 1950 and 1994. A graduate of Takarazuka Girl's Opera School, Otowa was first signed to Daiei studios, before becoming a freelance actress by the early 1950s. After starring in ...

as Sakie / Umeko *

Hiroyuki Nagato , stage name of Akio Kato (加藤晃夫), was a Japanese actor. He starred in '' Season of the Sun'', ''Endless Desire'', ''My Second Brother'', ''Stolen Desire'', and ''Sukeban Deka'', and ''Yo-Yo Girl Cop''. Life and career Nagato was born ...

as Tamatarō * Jūkichi Uno as Kiichi * Chikako Hosokawa as Madame * Tanie Kitabayashi as Nobuyo * Akitake Kōno as Yoshizō * Fukuko Sayo as Kurimoto's wife * Masami Shimojō * Ichirō Sugai as Kurimoto * Harue Tone as Saku * Taiji Tonoyama as Gensaku

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* 1956 films Japanese drama films 1950s Japanese-language films 1956 drama films Films directed by Kaneto Shindo 1950s Japanese films Japanese black-and-white films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub