The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family.
Directed by Mikio Naruse, Hideo Koi
User score
11 votes
Released
August 17, 1951
1h 25m
Japanese
Mieko Takamine
Namiko
So Yamamura
Yagi
Mariko Okada
Shinako
Isao Kimura
Nozu
Heihachirō Ōkawa
Kayama
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Takehara
Akihiko Katayama
Takao
Sadako Sawamura
Mitsue
Bontarō Miake
Numata
Reiko Otani
Tomoko
Yoshiko Hirose
Kayama's younger sister
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