The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata Yasunari.
Social & External
The people behind it
Ayako Wakao
Mrs. Ota
Machiko Kyō
Chikako Kurimoto
Mikijiro Hira
Kikuji Mitani
Eiko Azusa
Fumiko
Eiji Funakoshi
Kikuji's father
Tanie Kitabayashi
Toyo
Yōko Namikawa
Yukiko Inamura
Nobuko Shingu
Sumire Mikasa
Yoshio Takee
Mark Sabre hires young Effie Bright to keep his snobbish, cold-hearted wife Mabel company while he goes off to war. When he returns home from the front wounded, he finds that Mabel has fired Effie, who shows up at Mark's door with her baby, having no place to go. Mark takes her in, but Mabel leaves him when the town shuns him for what they believe is going on with Mark and Effie. Matters are further complicated when Effie, driven to desperation, commits an unspeakable act that results in Mark having a nervous breakdown--and then things get worse.
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