Directed by:
Kinuyo TanakaScreenplay:
Yasujirô OzuCinematography:
Shigeyoshi MineComposer:
Takanobu SaitôPlots(1)
Mokichi Asai is a widower father who lives with his three daughters in Nara. Chizuru, the eldest who has become a widow too; Ayako, the middle one, who is not interested in leaving home; and Setsuko the youngest one. Setsuko, and her friend Shoji, an attractive family lodger, instigate a romance between the shy middle sister and an older friend of his. (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
![Chishû Ryû](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271621_c51c65.jpg)
Chishû Ryû
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
The Human Bullet (1968)
Shûji Sano
Japan
Best movies:
Early Summer (1951)
A Hen in the Wind (1948)
There Was a Father (1942)
Hisako Yamane
Japan
Yôko Sugi
Japan
![Mie Kitahara](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/829/166829551_17bb28.png)
Mie Kitahara
Japan
Best movies:
Crazed Fruit (1956)
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (1952)
I Am Waiting (1957)
Ko Mishima
Best movies:
Mothra (1961)
Shôji Yasui
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)
The Burmese Harp (1956)
The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)
![Kinuyo Tanaka](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271623_771b58.jpg)
Kinuyo Tanaka
Japan
Best movies:
Red Beard (1965)
Equinox Flower (1958)
Ballad of Narayama (1958)
Junji Masuda
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Early Spring (1956)
Scandal (1950)
Hiroshi Shiomi
Japan