SYNOPSIS: The Kohayakawa family is thrown into distress when childlike father Manbei takes up with his old mistress, in one of Ozu’s most deftly modulated blendings of comedy and tragedy.
| Manbei Kohayakawa | Ganjiro Nakamura |
| Akiko | Setsuko Hara |
| Noriko | Yoko Tsukasa |
| Fumiko | Michiyo Aratama |
| Hisao | Keiji Kobayashi |
| Masao | Masahiko Shimazu |
| Eiichiro Isomura | Hisaya Morishige |
| Tsune Sasaki | Chieko Naniwa |
| Yuriko | Reiko Dan |
| Farmer | Chishu Ryu |
| Shige Kato | Haruko Sugimura |
| Yanosuke Kitagawa | Daisuke Kato |
| Director | Yasujiro Ozu |
| Screenplay | Yasujiro Ozu and Kogo Noda |
| Producer | Sanezumi Fujimoto, Tadahiro Teramoto and Masakatsu Kaneko |
| Cinematography | Asakazu Nakai |
| Art direction | Tomoo Shimogawara |
| Music | Toshiro Mayuzumi |
| Editing | Koichi Iwashita |
By June 18, 2007
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