
In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her single marital status at the advanced age of 28. 40-year-old business associate Takako proposes, Noriko's family press her into accepting, but when her widowed childhood friend Kenkichi returns to the neighborhood, she finds her heart leading in another direction.
Directed by Yasujirō Ozu
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Setsuko Hara
Noriko Mamiya

Chishū Ryū
Koichi Mamiya

Chikage Awashima
Aya Tamura

Kuniko Miyake
Fumiko Mamiya

Ichirō Sugai
Shukichi Mamiya

Chieko Higashiyama
Shige Mamiya

Haruko Sugimura
Tami Yabe

Kuniko Igawa
Takako

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Kenkichi Yabe

Shūji Sano
Sotaro Satake

Toyo Takahashi
Nobu Tamura

Seiji Miyaguchi
Nishiwaki

Kokuten Kōdō
Old Uncle
Matsuko Shiga
Mari Takanashi
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