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.

• TOHO
• Setsuko Hara
• Susumu Fujita
• Denjirō Ōkōchi
• Haruko Sugimura
• Eiko Miyoshi
• Akitake Kōno
• Kokuten Kōdō
• Takashi Shimura