In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and walked out on her years earlier.
Mikio Naruse
Director

Sumiko Kurishima
Omitsu

Tatsuo Saitō
Mizuhara, Omitsu's husband
Teruko Kojima
Fumi, Omitsu's son

Jun Arai
Neighbor

Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Neighbor's wife

Takeshi Sakamoto

Kenji Oyama

Shigeru Ogura

Chōko Iida
Landlady