Wedding Day

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of their widowed father's wedding to his chosen bride, Maki Tsuneko (Sadako Sawamura), who's anxious about her conduct as the bride.

Cast

Setsuko Hara

as Yoshiko

Yôko Yaguchi

as Asako

Kō Mihashi

Sadako Sawamura

Tamae Kiyokawa

Yo Shiomi

Yuriko Hanabusa

Haruko Sugimura

Heihachirō Ōkawa

Shizuko Nagaoka

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