Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their schoolteacher mother, civil servant father, elderly landlord, a rough new boy at the school, and three mysterious spirits in the form of old women.
Mieko Harada
Mizue Tashima
Keigo Matsuyama
Seizo Tashima
Shogo Matsuyama
Yukihiko Tashima
Kyōzō Nagatsuka
Kenzo Tashima
Kaneko Iwasaki
Toshie
Hōsei Komatsu
Grandfather
Tokuko Sugiyama
Grandmother
Koichi Ueda
Iwata
