CAST:
Nobuko Otowa (Toyo,
majka),
Taiji Tonoyama (Senta,
otac),
Shinji Tanaka (Tarô,
stariji sin),
Masanori Horimoto (Jirô,
mlađi sin)

SCRIPT:
Kaneto Shindô

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Kiyomi Kuroda

Synopsis:
This film, made almost with no dialogue and amateur actors, bordering on being a documentary film, shows the hard life of a family of four farmers. They live in isolation on an island from which, every day, they have to row to another island to get water for their fields. One day, when the parents are away fetching water, the older son gets sick…

35 mm, b/w, 94 min