In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past.
Director
Kon Ichikawa
Masayuki Mori
Nobuchi
Michiyo Aratama
Shizu, Nobuchi's wife
Tatsuya Mihashi
Kaji
Shōji Yasui
Hioki Jiro
Tanie Kitabayashi
Hioki's mother
Akiko Tamura
Shizu's mother
Tsutomu Shimomoto
Hioki's elder brother
Masami Shimojō
Employment agent
Tomoko Naraoka
Kume, the maid
Zenji Yamada
Nobuchi's uncle
Nobuo Kawakami
Undertaker
JP
