Overview

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.

Top Cast

Setsuko Hara

Tomiko Hirayama

Yōtarō Katsumi

Schoolmaster

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Ichiro Sawai

Ichiro

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Shiro Mizutani

Senzo

Kamatari Fujiwara

Senzo's father

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Yumiko Togawa

Nobuko Terai

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Sayuri Tanima

Kuni, Senzo's sister

Yuriko Hanabusa

Senzo's mother

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Tsuruko Baba

Woman at shop

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Kinji Fujiwa

Nagashima

Taizō Fukami

School doctor

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Ayako Ichinose

Suzumura