A fugitive walks into an inn. A father sells his daughter. Postwar Japan doesn't flinch.
This happened at a post station on the Shinshu road. Takizo Hoshigoe, a wanted man who has been missing since breaking through the Oto checkpoint, came to this post station longing for his hometown and stayed at Shinanoya. A farmer named Sakubei, who was struggling to pay his taxes, came to sell his daughter Omitsu.
Acting
Denjirō Ōkōchi's haunted stillness as the wanted man Takizo.
Cinematography
Snow-covered Shinshu landscapes that feel like purgatory.
Director
Taizō Fuyushima
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