Sound of the Mountain
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.
Setsuko Hara
Ogata Kikuko
So Yamamura
Ogata Shingo
Ken Uehara
Otto, Shuuichi
Yōko Sugi
Tanizaki Hideko
Teruko Nagaoka
Tsuma, Yasuko
Yatsuko Tan'ami
Ikeda
Chieko Nakakita
Aihara Fusako
Rieko Sumi
Kinuko
Hisao Toake
Shingo no yuujin
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.
A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, Futaba resolves to spend her remaining time reuniting her broken family, reopening the long-closed bathhouse, and helping her shy daughter Azumi learn to stand on her own.
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.