A Japanese Tragedy

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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  Keisuke Kinoshita
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  Yoshiro Kawazu

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  Yūko Mochizuki
  Haruko Inoue
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  Keiji Sada
  Tatsuya
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  Teiji Takahashi
  Sato
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  Yōko Katsuragi
  Haruko's daughter
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  Sanae Takasugi
  Mrs. Akazawa
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  Ken Uehara
  Masayuki Akazawa
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  Keiko Awaji
  Wakamaru, a geisha
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  Shinichi Himori
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  Fujio Suga
  Fujita
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  Tanie Kitabayashi
  Ichizo's wife
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  Jun Tatara
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  Masami Taura
  Haruko's son
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  Eijirō Yanagi
  Iwami
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  Tokuji Kobayashi
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  Ryōko Mizuki
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  Toshiko Yabuki
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  Kunio Teshirogi
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  Tazuko Kusaka
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  Norikazu Takeda
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  Tomio Aoki