Ballad of a Workman

8/12/19621h 42min6.1/10(7 TMDB votes)

Drama

Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita

Plot

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family.

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Cast

Hideko Takamine

Torae Nonaka

Keiji Sada

Yoshio Nonaka, Torae's husband

Yoshiko Kuga

Chiyo

Chieko Baisho

Miyoko Ishikawa, Toshiyuki's girlfriend

Toyozō Yamamoto

Toshiyuki Nonaka, Torae's son

Kiyoshi Nonomura

Mr. Mochizuki

Kin Sugai

Mrs. Mochizuki

Teruko Kishi

Yoshio's mother

Toranosuke Ogawa

Yoshio's father

Takeshi Sakamoto

Nobuo Takagi

Ippei Souda

Tsutomu Niijima

Yôji Doki

Torahiko Hamada