In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her single marital status at the advanced age of 28. 40-year-old business associate Takako proposes, Noriko's family press her into accepting, but when her widowed childhood friend Kenkichi returns to the neighborhood, she finds her heart leading in another direction.
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Setsuko Hara as Noriko Mamiya
Chishū Ryū as Koichi Mamiya
Chikage Awashima as Aya Tamura
Kuniko Miyake as Fumiko Mamiya
Ichirō Sugai as Shukichi Mamiya
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