
Portrait of Chieko
Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her family, she finds herself unable to confide in her husband, and the pain she carries within begins to weigh heavily on her sanity...
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Top Cast

Shima Iwashita
Chieko Takamura

Tetsuro Tamba
Kotaro Takamura

Mikijiro Hira
Ishii

Jin Nakayama
Toyochika Takamura

Tetsuo Ishidate
Taro

Kaori Shima
Fumiko

Kinuko Obata
Osato Sawada

Masuyo Iwamoto
Nobuko
Ayako Hosho
Yasu Naganuma

Taketoshi Naitō
Director Sawada

Yoshi Katō
Sokichi Naganuma

Minori Terada
Harukazu Kitami
Yasukawa

Nobuo Kaneko
Sawada

Takamaru Sasaki
Koun Takamura

Eiji Okada
Tsubaki

Yōko Minamida
Kazuko Tsubaki

Nobuo Kaneko
Yamazaki
Nobuko Tashiro
Shizu Takamura

Hiroshi Akutagawa
Poem Reader
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