An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and befriends a woman and her daughter, who are in a similar predicament.
Takeshi Sakamoto
Kihachi
Yoshiko Okada
Otaka
Chōko Iida
Otsune
Chishū Ryū
Policeman
Tomio Aoki
Zenko
Kazuko Ojima
Kuniko