Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise of fascism in Japan and becomes involved with two of his students.
Setsuko Hara
as Yukie Yagihara
Susumu Fujita
as Ruykichi Noge
Denjirō Ōkōchi
as Professor Yagihara
Haruko Sugimura
as Madame Noge
Eiko Miyoshi
as Madame Yagihara
Akitake Kōno
as Itokawa
Kokuten Kōdō
as Mr. Noge
Takashi Shimura
as Police Commissioner 'Poison Strawberry' Dokuichigo
Taizō Fukami
as Minister of Education
Masao Shimizu
as Professor Hakozaki