The Wiser Age
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Mikio Naruse
Hideko Takamine
Tatsuya Mihashi
Akira Takarada
Yoko Tsukasa
Reiko Dan
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Synopsis
The problems of the Ishikawa family who live in a Tokyo suburb center around the five daughters. The eldest of storekeeper Ichikawa's daughters runs an apartment house, while her husband is gone for months at a time chasing other women. The second daughter pursues a career and brings shame to the family by refusing to marry. The fourth and fifth daughters fall in love with the same man, Aoyama, a low-salaried clerk. Running the household is the widow of the family's first son. The third daughter arrives with her husband and begins working on a match between the fourth daughter and the wealthy Komiya. A salesman, the estranged son of Ishikawa's second wife, moves into the first daughter's apartment house; and the second daughter falls in love with him, denouncing her career for plans of marriage. The salesman is exposed as a philanderer, and the widow tactfully dissolves the relationship. Meanwhile, her son fails his college entrance examination and commits suicide. The fourth daughter decides to marry the wealthy Komiya.
Director
Mikio Naruse
Cast
Hideko Takamine
Tatsuya Mihashi
Akira Takarada
Yoko Tsukasa
Reiko Dan
Yuriko Hoshi
Chishu Ryu
Haruko Sugimura
Keiju Kobayashi
Yosuke Natsuki
Mitsuko Kusabue
Keiko Awaji
Aiko Mimasu
Daisuke Kato
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Released in Japan in 1962 as Onna no za.
