The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
Countries
Japan
Director
Cast
Chishū Ryū— Shukichi Hirayama
Chieko Higashiyama— Tomi Hirayama
Setsuko Hara— Noriko Hirayama
Haruko Sugimura— Shige Kaneko
So Yamamura— Koichi Hirayama
Kuniko Miyake— Fumiko Hirayama
