Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.
Kinuyo Tanaka
as Oyû Kayukawa
乙羽信子
as Shizu
堀雄二
as Shinnosuke Seribashi
平井岐代子
as Osumi
金剛麗子
as Otsugi Kayukawa
柳永二郎
as Eitaro
進藤英太郎
as Kusaemon
小林加奈枝
as Nanny
Fumihiko Yokoyama
as Book-keeper
藤川準
as Book-keeper
Sōji Shibata
as Book-keeper
Inosuke Kuhara
as Boy
