A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government.
Kinuyo Tanaka
Eiko Hirayama
Mitsuko Mito
Chiyo
Kuniko Miyake
Toshiko Kishida
Ichirō Sugai
Kentaro Omoi
Eitarō Ozawa
Ryuzo Hayase
Shinobu Araki
Eiko's Father