
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.
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Chishū Ryū as Shukichi Hirayama

Chieko Higashiyama as Tomi Hirayama

Setsuko Hara as Noriko Hirayama

Haruko Sugimura as Shige Kaneko

Sō Yamamura as Koichi Hirayama

Kuniko Miyake as Fumiko Hirayama

Kyōko Kagawa as Kyoko Hirayama

Eijirō Tōno as Numata

Nobuo Nakamura as Kurazo Kaneko

Shirō Ōsaka as Keizo Hirayama

Hisao Toake as Osamu Hattori

Teruko Nagaoka as Yone Hattori

Mutsuko Sakura as Oden Restaurant Woman

Toyo Takahashi as Woman Next Door

Tōru Abe as Railway Staff

Sachiko Mitani as Apartment Owner

Ryōko Mizuki as Beauty Salon Customer

Keijirō Morozumi as Policeman

Shozo Suzuki as Office Worker

Haruko Chichibu as Inn Maid

Takashi Miki as Tuyautashi

Toshinosuke Nagao as Doctor

Zen Murase as Minoru Hirayama

Mitsuhiro Môri as Isamu Hirayama

Yoshiko Togawa as Hospital Patient

Fumio Tooyama as Inspired Man

Tomoka Hasebe as Mahjong Player
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