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The tree sprouts no matter how strong the wind blows.
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.Read moreLess
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
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Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Hideko TakamineKeiko Yashiro
Masayuki MoriNobuhiko Fujisaki
Reiko DanJunko Inchihashi
Tatsuya NakadaiKenichi Komatsu
Daisuke KatōMatsukichi Sekine
Ganjirō Nakamura II
Eitarō OzawaMinobe
Keiko AwajiYuri
Chieko NakakitaTomoko
Jun TataraGoldfish
Yū FujikiMatsui
Masao OdaYoshizo YashiroExplore the crew
- Director
- Mikio Naruse
- Director of Photography
- Masao Tamai
- Editor
- Eiji Ooi
- Producer
- Ryuzo Kikushima
- Original Music Composer
- Toshirō Mayuzumi
- Screenplay
- Ryuzo Kikushima