White Fish

White Fish

104 mins | Aug. 5, 1953

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon the wife and the son are left without an update of his status and whether he is alive or not. With the clinic lying dormant the doctor's wife rents the premises to her husband's underling. This is a man who does not accept payment from the poor. The woman, in the meantime, works at a restaurant whose owner being ill has given her additional duties. Her younger sister is an unmarried finance writer who also lives with them. It is both sisters, however, who receive marriage proposals.

White Fish

104 mins | Aug. 5, 1953

White Fish
A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon the wife and the son are left without an update of his status and whether he is alive or not. With the clinic lying dormant the doctor's wife rents the premises to her husband's underling. This is a man who does not accept payment from the poor. The woman, in the meantime, works at a restaurant whose owner being ill has given her additional duties. Her younger sister is an unmarried finance writer who also lives with them. It is both sisters, however, who receive marriage proposals.
Producers Toho Company, Ltd., Toho Pictures, Inc.
Original title 白魚
Directors Hisatora Kumagai
Writers Yutaka Mafune, Dai Nishijima, Hisatora Kumagai

Cast

Setsuko Hara

as Sachiko

Ken Uehara

as Koyama

Hiroshi Koizumi

as Sumida

Mariko Okada

as Kuniko

Yūnosuke Itō

as Komiya

Ken Mitsuda

as Toyama

Eiko Miyoshi

as Nan