A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their individual problems.
Direction
Kobayashi's surgical precision with repressed emotion
Acting
Keiji Sada's crumbling patriarch energy
Director
Masaki Kobayashi
Keiji Sada
Ryoichi Morita
Yoshiko Kuga
Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife
Hideko Takamine
Yasuko, Ryoichi's sister
Akira Ishihama
Noboru, Ryoichi's brother
Minoru Ōki
Shun-don
Toshiko Kobayashi
Hisako, Shinkichi's sister
Masami Taura
Mr. Mitsui, Noboru's friend
Kumeko Urabe
Shige, Ryoichi's stepmother
Chieko Nakakita
Natsuko
Shinichi Himori
Ryōhei Uchida
Shinkichi, Hiroko's friend
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Japan's postwar economic boom, it quietly interrogates the 'salaryman' ideal while everyone else was celebrating it.
Kobayashi made this between his war trilogy and Harakiri—it's his 'small' film that his studio barely noticed.
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