Drama · Japan · 1957 · 1h 38m

On This Earth

地上

Director

Cast

Hiroshi Kawaguchi as Heiichiro Okawa Hitomi Nozoe as Wakako Yoshikura Kinuyo Tanaka as Omitsu, Heiichiro's mother Kyōko Kagawa as Fuyuko Keizō Kawasaki as Tokio, Wakako's brother Shin Saburi as Ichiro Amano

Crew

Yoshihisa Nakagawa — Director of Photography Akira Ifukube — Original Music Composer Kaneto Shindō — Writer Seijirō Shimada — Story Masaichi Nagata — Producer

Synopsis

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.

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