Lightning Plot
Mikio Naruse's second adaptation of a novel by Fumiko Hayashi stars Hideko Takamine, the director's frequent muse, as bus conductress Kiyoko Komori, the youngest daughter in a family of squabbling half-siblings. All the children are products of different fathers, though they share the same mother: a tragically weak-willed woman named Osei (Kumeko Urabe). The familial tension only increases when the husband of one daughter dies and leaves behind a substantial insurance policy, so Kiyoko abandons them to their quarrels and makes a go of it on her own, though she finds she can't leave her mother behind so easily.
Lightning Cast
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as Kiyoko -
as Mitsuko -
as Tsubomi -
as Nuiko -
as Shuzo -
as Tsunakichi -
as Osei -
as Ritsu -
as Tome -
as Ryuzo
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