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.
Cast
Setsuko Hara
Yuki
Toshirō Mifune
Kurokawa
Yōko Sugi
Harumi
Hisaya Morishige
Akazawa
Murasaki Fujima
Konatsu
Hiroshi Koizumi
Shôtarô
Nijiko Kiyokawa
Tsuruko
Kazuo Masubuchi
Chûkichi
Chōko Iida
Matsuyo
Reikichi Kawamura
Yamamoto
Hisao Toake
Jewelry shop proprietor
Sadako Sawamura
Jewelry shop proprietress
Kamatari Fujiwara
Aoyama
Kan Yanagiya
Doctor
Keiju Kobayashi
Unknown
Daisuke Inoue
Dai
Fumiko Okamura
Unknown
Shōichi Hirose
Unknown
Yutaka Nakayama
Unknown
Fuyuki Murakami
Unknown
Yoshio Kosugi
Unknown
Sachio Sakai
Unknown
Keiichirō Katsumoto
Unknown
Ren Yamamoto
Unknown
Shigeo Katō
Unknown
Keiji Sakakida
Unknown
Teruko Mita
Unknown
Suzuko Takayama
Unknown
Haruna Kaburagi
Unknown
Crew
Yasuki Chiba
Director
Fumio Yoshida
Screenplay
Toshiro Ide
Screenplay
Hidetoshi Kasama
Editor
Tadashi Iimura
Director of Photography
Mikio Komatsu
Assistant Director
Sanezumi Fujimoto
Producer
Hisatora Kumagai
Producer
Masanobu Miyazaki
Sound Recordist
Masaki Ônuma
Lighting Technician
Nobuo Iida
Original Music Composer
Takeo Kita
Art Direction
Kyoe Hamagami
Art Direction
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