Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.
Length 97 minutes
Setsuko Hara | Toshirō Mifune | Yôko Sugi | Hisaya Morishige | Murasaki Fujima | Hiroshi Koizumi | Nijiko Kiyokawa | Kazuo Masubuchi | Chôko Iida | Reikichi Kawamura | Hisao Toake | Sadako Sawamura | Kamatari Fujiwara | Kan Yanagiya | Keiju Kobayashi | Daisuke Inoue | Fumiko Okamura | Shôichi Hirose | Yutaka Nakayama | Fuyuki Murakami | Yoshio Kosugi | Sachio Sakai | Keiichirô Katsumoto | Ren Yamamoto | Shigeo Katô | Keiji Sakakida | Teruko Mita | Suzuko Takayama | Haruna Kaburagi