(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
1955Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes the owner of "Fujimura" in the town of Hato. Eiko is a timid woman who hates Terada, a watchmaker who is obsessed with her; Tamie is a hard worker who asks for money from customers to support her mother and daughter Teruko; Tane, who dreams of the day they can be together, gives money to her lover Takeda; Machiko, an apres girl, is selective about her customers in the name of romance. They are women working in the red light district at "Fujimura."
Acted in
Mariko Okada
as Suzuyo
Kinuyo Tanaka
as Oshige
Keiko Awaji
as Eiko
Hideko Takamine
as Machiko
Bokuzen Hidari
as Florist
Hisaya Morishige
as Denkichi Yoshida
Mitsuko Mito
as Chiyoko
Kumeko Urabe
as Masa
Kamatari Fujiwara
as Old Man
Terumi Niki
as Teruko
Yōko Katsuragi
as Unnamed
Asami Kuji
as Tamie
Hiroshi Tachikawa
as Murai
Zeko Nakamura
as Unnamed