

“The sadness of the fight is the sadness of love. The joy and decline of life that only couples know”
Fumiko and Ryōtarō Namiki's marriage has gone stale, with both constantly arguing over what to do on a day off, or about her cutting out recipes from the newspaper before he finishes reading it. Their animosities are witnessed by Fumiko's niece Ayako, who visits to complain about her own husband's inattentiveness, and their new neighbours, the Imasatos.
Directed by Mikio Naruse
User score
15 votes
Released
January 14, 1956
1h 31m
Japanese

Setsuko Hara
Fumiko Namiki

Shūji Sano
Ryotaro Namiki

Kyōko Kagawa
Ayako (Fumiko's niece)

Akemi Negishi
Hinako (Nenkichi's wife)

Keiju Kobayashi
Nenkichi Imazato (the man next door)

Chieko Nakakita
Toki Kurobayashi

Haruko Tōgō
Rin Amayama

Teruko Nagaoka

Daisuke Katō
Kawakami

Hajime Izu
Miwa

Sachio Sakai
Tada

Fuyuki Murakami
Taneda

Seijirô Onda
Division Chief

Toki Shiozawa
Takako (Miwa's wife)

Kiyomi Mizunoya
Natsuko Ogushi

Ren Yamamoto
Tomiyama

Yaeko Izumo
Matsuno Katakura

Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
Abe
Fumindo Matsuo
Komori (the painter)

Senkichi Ōmura
Open-air seller