Overview
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.
Director and cast
- Kaneto Shindō Director
- Nobuko Otowa as Mino Kawamura
- Taiji Tonoyama as Yoshizo Kawamura
- Rokkō Toura as Saito
- Chōichirō Kawarasaki as Kobayakawa's father
- Chôichirô Kawarasaki as Kobayakawa's father
- Rie Yokoyama as Sakiko
- Miki Kojika as Yoshiko Kawamura
- Eiji Okada as Lawyer
- Fumio Watanabe as Lawyer
- Akira Yamanouchi as Umina
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