A novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young teacher's first week with her new students is enjoyable, but she gradually notices that many of the students are skipping school. Visiting her students after class, she realizes that many of them are charged with work and tasks like making money, toiling on the farm, doing housework or tending to their younger siblings. Many of them live in unhygienic homes due to poverty or overwork. She not only reports and explains the situation to the school's principal, but also attempts to improve the conditions by making textbooks, teaching cleanliness, and making her classes relevant.
Takeshi Sato
Director
Setsuko Hara
Tomiko Hirayama
Yōtarō Katsumi
Schoolmaster
Ichiro Sawai
Ichiro
Shiro Mizutani
Senzo
Kamatari Fujiwara
Senzo's father
Yumiko Togawa
Nobuko Terai
Sayuri Tanima
Kuni, Senzo's sister
Yuriko Hanabusa
Senzo's mother
Tsuruko Baba
Woman at shop
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