The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war with a crippling injury, and then forced into marriage with him. In four more chapters, presented over three decades, their children undertake their own searches for love, while the parents try to make each other as miserable as possible.
as Sadako
as Takashi
as Heibei
as Tomoko
as Yutaka
as Eiichi
as Naoko
as Rikizo
as Sojiro
as Heizaemon
as Mr. Koshinuma
as Morito
as Policeman