"In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past."
Masayuki Mori
as Nobuchi
Michiyo Aratama
as Shizu, Nobuchi's wife
Tatsuya Mihashi
as Kaji
Shōji Yasui
as Hioki Jiro
Tanie Kitabayashi
as Hioki's mother
Akiko Tamura
as Shizu's mother
Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru
as Hioki's father
Tsutomu Shimomoto
as Hioki's elder brother
Masami Shimojō
as Employment agent
Tomoko Naraoka
as Kume, the maid
Akira Hisamatsu
as Travelling monk
Zenji Yamada
as Nobuchi's uncle
Keiji Itami
as Kaji's father
Kiyoshi Kamoda
as Doctor
Nobuo Kawakami
as Undertaker
Kaoru Yamamoto
as Lady of the lodgings
Masayuki Takagi
Producer
Natsume Sōseki
Novel
Kon Ichikawa
Director
Masao Oki
Original Music Composer
Masanori Tsujii
Editor
Yasushi Akutagawa
Keiji Hasebe
Screenplay
Kazumi Koike
Art Direction
Katsuhito Inomata
Fumio Hashimoto
Sound
Toshio Masuda
Assistant Director
Takeo Itō
Director of Photography