Directed by:
Keisuke KinoshitaScreenplay:
Keisuke KinoshitaCinematography:
Hiroshi KusudaComposer:
Chûji KinoshitaPlots(1)
Slow-paced but endowed with understanding, characters of some depth and complexity, and good direction, this slice-of-drama by Keisuke Kinoshita is taken from a bitter confection. The tale begins when Sadako (Hideko Takamine) finds that she will not be able to marry the man she loves after all. The son of one of the town's biggest landowners, partially physically disabled from the war, decides that Sadako is the woman he wants to marry. Given his position and the fact that her father is a lowly peasant, she has little choice. But what little she has, she decides to take it when the man she loves returns and they come to the conclusion that they should run off together. Even then, Sadako's future is far from certain (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Hideko Takamine](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272423_1ff948.jpg)
Hideko Takamine
Japan
Best movies:
Asu o tsukuru hitobito (1946)
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
Immortal Love (1961)
![Keiji Sada](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/185/159185756_9dfdd7.jpg)
Keiji Sada
Japan
Best movies:
Immortal Love (1961)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)
![Tatsuya Nakadai](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272374_48e342.jpg)
Tatsuya Nakadai
Japan
Best movies:
Zatoichi at the Fire Festival (1970)
The Human Bullet (1968)
Seven Samurai (1954)
![乙羽信子](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271588_a6690e.jpg)
乙羽信子
Japan
Best movies:
Immortal Love (1961)
The Naked Island (1960)
Onibaba (1964)
Akira Ishihama
Japan
Best movies:
Immortal Love (1961)
Harakiri (1962)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
![田村正和](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/377/159377574_fe8997.jpg)
田村正和
Japan
Best movies:
Immortal Love (1961)
Samurai Banners (1969)
Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song (1973)
![Eijirō Tōno](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/615/158615754_9991c8.jpg)
Eijirō Tōno
Japan
Best movies:
Revenge (1963)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
加藤嘉
Japan
Best movies:
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
Immortal Love (1961)
A Fugitive from the Past (1965)
Yasushi Nagata
Japan
Best movies:
Immortal Love (1961)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Sword of the Beast (1965)