

“So short is the life of a flower, yet so much hardships it suffered.”
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.
Directed by Mikio Naruse
User score
108 votes

Released
January 15, 1955
2h 3m
Japanese

Hideko Takamine
Yukiko Koda

Masayuki Mori
Kengo Tomioka

Mariko Okada
Sei Mukai

Isao Yamagata
Sugio Iba

Chieko Nakakita
Kuniko Tomioka

Daisuke Katō
Seikichi Mukai

Noriko Sengoku

Mayuri Mokushô

Fuyuki Murakami

Heihachirō Ōkawa

Nobuo Kaneko
Roy James
Kan Hayashi
Akira Tani

Seijirô Onda
Keiko Môri

Tsuruko Mano

Kumeko Otowa

Teruko Mita
Toshiko Nakano