Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car.
Sugiko Shima
Koichi, her younger brother
Hiroshi Yamanouchi
Takako, his elder sister
mother
Shinkichi Yamamura
Machio Harada
Yoshiko Hisayama