Top Cast
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Ken Uehara
Hatsunosuke Okamoto
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Setsuko Hara
Michiyo Okamoto
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Yukiko Shimazaki
Satoko Okamoto
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Yōko Sugi
Mitsuko Murata
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Akiko Kazami
Seiko Tomiyasu
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Haruko Sugimura
Matsu Murata
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Ranko Hanai
Koyoshi Dohya
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Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Kazuo Takenaka
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Keiju Kobayashi
Shinzo Murata
Overview
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
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