

Drama
Overview
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
Top Cast


Chishū Ryū
Chishū Ryū
Shukichi Hirayama
Chishū Ryū
Shukichi Hirayama


Chieko Higashiyama
Chieko Higashiyama
Tomi Hirayama
Chieko Higashiyama
Tomi Hirayama


Setsuko Hara
Setsuko Hara
Noriko Hirayama
Setsuko Hara
Noriko Hirayama


Haruko Sugimura
Haruko Sugimura
Shige Kaneko
Haruko Sugimura
Shige Kaneko


So Yamamura
So Yamamura
Koichi Hirayama
So Yamamura
Koichi Hirayama


Kuniko Miyake
Kuniko Miyake
Fumiko Hirayama
Kuniko Miyake
Fumiko Hirayama


Kyōko Kagawa
Kyōko Kagawa
Kyoko Hirayama
Kyōko Kagawa
Kyoko Hirayama


Eijirō Tōno
Eijirō Tōno
Numata
Eijirō Tōno
Numata


Nobuo Nakamura
Nobuo Nakamura
Kurazo Kaneko
Nobuo Nakamura
Kurazo Kaneko


Shirō Ōsaka
Shirō Ōsaka
Keizo Hirayama
Shirō Ōsaka
Keizo Hirayama
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