Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.

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Cast

Sachiko Chiba

Kimiko Yamamoto

Yuriko Hanabusa

Oyuki

Setsuko Horikoshi

Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter)

Sadao Maruyama

Shunsaku Yamamoto

Heihachirō Ōkawa

Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)

Kamatari Fujiwara

Shingo (Kimiko's uncle)

Chikako Hosokawa

Shingo's wife