Directed by:
Heinosuke GoshoScreenplay:
Hideo OguniPlots(1)
In a small neighborhood in Tokyo, two couples live under the same roof with the dream of a prosperous life in a Japan devastated by war. Widow Hiroko (Kinuyo Tanaka) and her new husband resort to informal jobs in order to provide for their household. The other couple, a state employee and his radio announcer wife, long for a long and happy marriage. The routine of the four neighbors changes when an abandoned baby appears at their doorstep. (Mar del Plata International Film Festival)
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Haruo Tanaka
Japan
Best movies:
Living (1952)
Early Spring (1956)
Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island (1956)
Kinuyo Tanaka
Japan
Best movies:
Red Beard (1965)
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Ballad of Narayama (1958)
Hideko Takamine
Japan
Best movies:
Asu o tsukuru hitobito (1946)
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
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三好栄子
Japan
Best movies:
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Living (1952)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
浦辺粂子
Japan
Best movies:
Living (1952)
Early Spring (1956)
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
Hikaru Hoshi
Japan
Best movies:
Fires on the Plain (1959)
Floating Weeds (1959)
Giants and Toys (1958)
Ken Uehara
Japan
Best movies:
Mr. Thank You (1936)
The Munekata Sisters (1950)
Mothra (1961)
Hiroshi Akutagawa
Japan
Chieko Seki
Japan
Ranko Hanai
Japan
Takeshi Sakamoto
Best movies:
I Was Born, But... (1932)
Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
The Masseurs and a Woman (1938)
Zeko Nakamura
Japan
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Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
Shigeru Ogura
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