24 May 1972
Hearth Fires
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Miss Oyu
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.
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田中絹代 Oyû Kayukawa
乙羽信子 Shizu
堀雄二 Shinnosuke Seribashi
平井岐代子 Osumi
金剛麗子 Otsugi Kayukawa
柳永二郎 Eitaro
進藤英太郎 Kusaemon
小林加奈枝 Nanny
Fumihiko Yokoyama Book-keeper
藤川準 Book-keeper
Sōji Shibata Book-keeper
Inosuke Kuhara Boy
Ayuko Fujishiro Waitress
南部彰三 Doctor
小松みどり Hostess
Sachiko Soma
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