A Woman's Life (1955)

女の一生

The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mother in pre-war Japan.

Date of release

1955-01-29

Genres

Drama

Director

Noboru Nakamura

Casting

• Chikage Awashima — Nobuko Miki
• Masami Taura — Makoto Musuko, Nobuko's son
• Tokuji Kobayashi — Nobuko's father
• Kumeko Urabe — Nobuko's mother
• Fujio Suga — brother Daisuke
• Ken Uehara — Kujō, Nobuko's husband
• Mitsuko Kusabue — Yumiko Kagami
• Toshiko Kobayashi — Sumiko
• Shozo Suzuki — Aoshima
• Hitomi Nozoe — Midori, Aoshima's younger sister
• Sachiko Murase — Aoshima's mother
• Eiichi Sugasawara — Shojiro Enami

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