Overview
Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.
Director and cast
- Mikio Naruse Director
- Sachiko Chiba as Kimiko Yamamoto
- Yuriko Hanabusa as Oyuki
- Toshiko Itō as Etsuko Yamamoto
- Setsuko Horikoshi as Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter)
- Sadao Maruyama as Shunsaku Yamamoto
- Heihachirō Ōkawa as Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
- Kaoru Itō as Kenichi (Oyuki's son)
- Kamatari Fujiwara as Shingo (Kimiko's uncle)
- Chikako Hosokawa as Shingo's wife
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