The Daphne
1966Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffering mother. The mother and her brother try various schemes to find husbands for them.
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Machiko Kyō
as Kikuko (the eldest daughter)
Yōko Tsukasa
as Umeko (the second daughter)
Reiko Dan
as Sakura (the third daughter)
Yuriko Hoshi
as Ayame (the fourth daughter)
Keiju Kobayashi
as Ooka (Umeko's husband)
Yōsuke Natsuki
as Nomura (Ayame's husband)
Akira Takarada
as Kudo
Tadao Takashima
as Minegishi (Ooka's friend)
Norihei Miki
Ichirō Arishima
Daisuke Katō
Makoto Satō
as Goro (Kudo's younger brother)
Yasuo Tanabe
as Tsuruo (the eldest son)
Natsuko Kahara
as Asako (Ooka's mother)
Hiroshi Koizumi
Yū Fujiki
Ikio Sawamura
Chōtarō Tōgin
as Kondo (Tsuruo's friend)
Shirō Tsuchiya
Yutaka Nakayama
Yutaka Sada
Shōichi Hirose
Haruko Sugimura
as Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
Tatsuya Nakadai