At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
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Yūko Mochizuki as Haruko Inoue
Keiji Sada as Tatsuya
Teiji Takahashi as Sato
Yōko Katsuragi as Haruko's daughter
Sanae Takasugi as Mrs. Akazawa
Ken Uehara as Masayuki Akazawa
Keiko Awaji as Wakamaru, a geisha
Shinichi Himori as
Fujio Suga as Fujita
Tanie Kitabayashi as Ichizo's wife
Jun Tatara as
Masami Taura as Haruko's son
Eijirō Yanagi as Iwami
Tokuji Kobayashi as
Ryōko Mizuki as
Toshiko Yabuki as
Kunio Teshirogi as
Tazuko Kusaka as
Norikazu Takeda as
Tomio Aoki as
Keiko Enami as
Yôshirô Kusakari as Ichizo's son
Yoshino Tani as
Hideaki Nagai as
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