The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war with a crippling injury, and then forced into marriage with him. In four more chapters, presented over three decades, their children undertake their own searches for love, while the parents try to make each other as miserable as possible.
高峰秀子
as Sadako
佐田啓二
as Takashi
仲代達矢
as Heibei
乙羽信子
as Tomoko
石濱朗
as Yutaka
田村正和
as Eiichi
藤由紀子
as Naoko
野々村潔
as Rikizo
加藤嘉
as Sojiro
永田靖
as Heizaemon
浜田寅彦
as Mr. Koshinuma
Masaya Totsuka
as Morito
