
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.

Kinuyo Tanaka
Hiroko Ogata

Ken Uehara
Ryukichi Ogata

Hideko Takamine
Senko Azuma

Hiroshi Akutagawa
Kenzo Kubo

Chieko Seki
Yukiko Ikeda

Ranko Hanai
Katsuko Ishibashi

Takeshi Sakamoto
Tokuji Kawamura

Haruo Tanaka
Chuji Tsukahara

Eiko Miyoshi
Ranko

Kumeko Urabe
Kayo Nojima

Hikaru Hoshi

Zeko Nakamura

Shigeru Ogura
Eiko Ōhara

Noriko Honma