Release, runtime and language

1947 · 118 mins · Japanese

Directed by

Heinosuke Gosho

Starring

Masao Shimizu, Haruo Tanaka, Mieko Takamine, Chieko Nakakita, Atsuko Ichinomiya, Yaeko Izumo

Set against the backdrop of 1936 through the war, the film follows a sheltered bourgeois woman and a devoted doctor who cares for the poor. Their decade‑long romance is tinged with political overtones, marked by brief reunions and repeated separations as the tumultuous events of the era intervene.