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Ballad of a Workman

1962 1h 42m 6.1Movie
Drama

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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Keisuke Kinoshita

Screenplay, Director

Top Cast

Hideko Takamine

Hideko Takamine

Torae Nonaka

Keiji Sada

Keiji Sada

Yoshio Nonaka, Torae's husband

Yoshiko Kuga

Yoshiko Kuga

Chiyo

Chieko Baisho

Chieko Baisho

Miyoko Ishikawa, Toshiyuki's girlfriend

Toyozō Yamamoto

Toshiyuki Nonaka, Torae's son

Kiyoshi Nonomura

Mr. Mochizuki

Kin Sugai

Kin Sugai

Mrs. Mochizuki

Teruko Kishi

Teruko Kishi

Yoshio's mother

Toranosuke Ogawa

Toranosuke Ogawa

Yoshio's father

Takeshi Sakamoto

Takeshi Sakamoto

Nobuo Takagi

Nobuo Takagi

Ippei Souda

Ippei Souda

Tsutomu Niijima

Yôji Doki

Torahiko Hamada

Torahiko Hamada

Chieko Misaki

Chieko Misaki

Mitsuyo Mizushima

Mariko Aoyama

Yachiyo Ōhashi

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