Early Summer

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

  Noriko Mamiya
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  Chishū Ryū

  Koichi Mamiya
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  Chikage Awashima

  Aya Tamura
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  Kuniko Miyake

  Fumiko Mamiya
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  Ichirō Sugai

  Shukichi Mamiya
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  Chieko Higashiyama

  Shige Mamiya
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  Haruko Sugimura

  Tami Yabe
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  Kuniko Igawa

  Takako
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  Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

  Kenkichi Yabe
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  Shūji Sano

  Sotaro Satake