Overview

After marrying off one daughter, a widowed father struggles with loneliness and the changing lives of his children. While his younger daughter falls in love with a charming but controversial man, his older daughter remains emotionally tied to a former lover who has since married. As tensions over marriage, independence, and family expectations grow, the family is forced to confront the gap between traditional values and modern relationships in postwar Japan.

Cast

Shima Iwashita

Yuriko Andō

Etsuko Ikuta

Ayako Kigawa

Muga Takewaki

Kazuto Kobayashi

Ichirō Arishima

Manzaburō Kigawa

Isao Yamagata

Shūichi Andō

Mitsuko Mori

Kiku Kigawa