Early Summer 1951

Synopsis

In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her single marital status at the advanced age of 28. 40-year-old business associate Takako proposes, Noriko's family press her into accepting, but when her widowed childhood friend Kenkichi returns to the neighborhood, she finds her heart leading in another direction.

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Cast

• Setsuko Hara Noriko Mamiya
• Chishū Ryū Koichi Mamiya
• Chikage Awashima Aya Tamura
• Kuniko Miyake Fumiko Mamiya
• Ichirō Sugai Shukichi Mamiya
• Chieko Higashiyama Shige Mamiya
• Haruko Sugimura Tami Yabe
• Kuniko Igawa Takako
• Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi Kenkichi Yabe
• Shūji Sano Sotaro Satake

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