Directed by Mikio Naruse (成瀬巳喜男)
Written by Fumiko Hayashi (林芙美子) and Sumie Tanaka (田中澄江)
Cinematography by Shigeyoshi Mine (峰重義)
Music by Ichirō Saitō (斎藤一郎)
Starring:
Hideko Takamine (高峰秀子), Mitsuko Miura (三浦光子), Kyōko Kagawa (香川京子), Chieko Murata (村田知英子), Jun Negami (根上淳), Eitarō Ozawa/Sakae Ozawa (小沢栄太郎/小沢栄), Kumeko Urabe (浦辺粂子), Chieko Nakakita (中北千枝子), Hisako Takihana (滝花久子), Kenjiro/Kenzaburo Uemura (植村謙二郎), Mariko Sugioka (杉丘毬子), Osamu Maruyama (丸山修), Tadashi Date (伊達正)
Synopsis:
23-year-old Kiyoko works as a tour guide in Tokyo and lives with her single mother and her three older adult siblings, all from different fathers. Her brother Kasuke is an unemployed war veteran and, while everyone in her family pushes Kiyoko to find a man to marry, there is little pressure on him to find a wife. Her oldest sister Nuiko, married to Ryuzo, wants Kiyoko to date the baker Tsunakichi, who secretly is her own lover. From her siblings, Kiyoko is closest to her sister Mitsuko. When Rohei, Mitsuko’s husband, dies, his mistress and her newborn child come to the house to ask Mitsuko for money from her husband’s life insurance. Also Nuiko, Kasuke and the mother want to borrow money from Mitsuko for their own pursuits. Mitsuko eventually decides to use the money partly for her husband’s illegitimate son and for opening up her own coffee shop.
Kiyoko becomes frustrated with the tensions in her family and being pushed to date Tsunakichi, in whom she is not interested at all. She moves out into a flat of her own, where she becomes acquainted with Shuzo and Tsubomi, a brother and sister her age living next door. Kiyoko slowly develops an interest in Shuzo, who is a pianist. Although feeling sad over having left the family, she feels like it was the right thing to do. When her mother comes to look for the missing Mitsuko at Kiyoko’s place, they have an argument about the many fathers Kiyoko grew up with and start crying, while a thunderstorm passes by. Afterwards, Kiyoko offers to buy her mother new summer clothes and walks her home.
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