Yukie, the well-bred daughter of a university professor, is shocked when her father is relieved of his post for his political teachings, and even more so when her lover, one of her father’s students, is arrested, then executed as a spy. She decides to leave Kyoto to live with the boy’s parents in their peasant village. But life still has many lessons for her…
cast
Setsuko Hara as Yukie Yagihara
Susumu Fujita as Ruykichi Noge
Denjirô Ôkôchi as Professor Yagihara
Haruko Sugimura as Madame Noge
Eiko Miyoshi as Madame Yagihara
Kokuten Kôdô as Mr. Noge
Akitake Kôno as Itokawa
Takashi Shimura as Police Commissioner ‘Poison Strawberry’ Dokuichigo
Taizô Fukami as Minister of Education
Masao Shimizu as Professor Hakozaki
Haruo Tanaka as Student
Kazu Hikari as Detective
Hisako Hara as Itokawa’s Mother
Shin Takemura as Prosecutor
Tateo Kawasaki as Servant
Fusako Fujima as Old Woman
Sayuri Tanima as Lady
Itoko Kôno as Lady
Chieko Nakakita as Lady
Ichirô Chiba as Student
Isamu Yonekura as Student
Noburo Takagi as Student
Hiroshi Sano as Student
crew
Director: Akira Kurosawa
JP | 110 minutes | 1946