Overview

Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their schoolteacher mother, civil servant father, elderly landlord, a rough new boy at the school, and three mysterious spirits in the form of old women.

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Cast

Mieko Harada

Mizue Tashima

Kyōzō Nagatsuka

Kenzo Tashima

Kaneko Iwasaki

Toshie

Hōsei Komatsu

Grandfather

Tokuko Sugiyama

Grandmother

Koichi Ueda

Iwata