Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky (1954)

Director: Masaki Kobayashi

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

Cast

Keiji Sada

Ryoichi Morita

Yoshiko Kuga

Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife

Hideko Takamine

Yasuko, Ryoichi's sister

Akira Ishihama

Noboru, Ryoichi's brother

Minoru Ōki

Shun-don

Toshiko Kobayashi

Hisako, Shinkichi's sister

Masami Taura

Mr. Mitsui, Noboru's friend

Kumeko Urabe

Shige, Ryoichi's stepmother

Chieko Nakakita

Natsuko

Eiko Miyoshi