is a 1956 Japanese

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

written and directed by

Kaneto Shindō was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer, who directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include '' Children of Hiroshima'', '' The Naked Island'', '' Onibaba'', '' Kuroneko'' a ...

. It is based on the novel of the same name by

Yōko Ōta was a Japanese writer. Many of her works are associated with the Atomic bomb literature genre. Biography Ōta was born Hatsuko (初子, "first born") Fukuda in Hiroshima to a wealthy landowner and his second wife Tomi. In 1910, her mother divo ...

Cast

Mie Kitahara is a Japanese actress who appeared in more than 60 films between 1952 and 1960. Biography Born in Meguro, Tokyo, Kitahara gave her screen debut in Keisuke Kinoshita's 1952 '' Carmen's Pure Love''. In 1954, she moved from the Shochiku film studi ...

as Chiho Teraoka *

Nobuko Otowa was a Japanese actress who appeared in more than 100 films between 1950 and 1994. Life and career A graduate of Takarazuka Girl's Opera School, Otowa was first signed to Daiei studios, before becoming a freelance actress by the early 1950s. A ...

as Hagiyo, Chiho's mother *

Rentarō Mikuni was a Japanese actor, writer and director, who starred in films of Keisuke Kinoshita, Mikio Naruse, Tadashi Imai, Shōhei Imamura, Tomu Uchida and many others. He received numerous prizes for his performances and was awarded the Jury Prize at t ...

as Ryūkichi Fukase * Ranko Akagi as Yoshie, Ryūkichi's mother * Sen Hara as Sama (credited as Senko Hara) *

Nobuo Kaneko was a Japanese actor. His wife was actress Yatsuko Tanami. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1946 and 1993. Career Kaneko was a versatile character actor, playing roles ranging from comedic buffoons to hardened yakuza bosses. He is es ...

as Takakura *

Sachiko Murase was a Japanese stage and film actress. She appeared in about 90 films between 1927 and 1991, often under the direction of Hiroshi Shimizu and Keisuke Kinoshita, and received numerous awards for her stage and film performances. Biography Sachik ...

as Uta, Chiho's grandmother *

Terumi Niki is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. Since a child, she has been a member of the Japanese Theatrical Company Gekidan Wakakusa, of which she has joined in 1953. She played the young girl Otoyo in Akira Kurosawa's ''Red Beard'' (1965). Selected fi ...

Ichirō Sugai was a Japanese actor and film director who appeared in more than 300 films in his 45 years spanning career, working with directors such as Kaneto Shindō, Kenji Mizoguchi and Kōzaburō Yoshimura. Biography Sugai was born in Rukahara (now Hig ...

as Sōkichi, Ryūkichi's father * Yoshiko Tsubouchi as Kuniko (credited as Mieko Tsubouchi)

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* 1956 films Japanese drama films 1950s Japanese-language films 1956 drama films Films directed by Kaneto Shindo 1950s Japanese films Japanese black-and-white films Films scored by Akira Ifukube Films based on Japanese novels Japanese-language drama films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub