
In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past.

Masayuki Mori
Nobuchi

Michiyo Aratama
Shizu, Nobuchi's wife

Tatsuya Mihashi
Kaji

Shōji Yasui
Hioki Jiro

Tanie Kitabayashi
Hioki's mother

Akiko Tamura
Shizu's mother
Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru
Hioki's father

Tsutomu Shimomoto
Hioki's elder brother

Masami Shimojō
Employment agent

Tomoko Naraoka
Kume, the maid
Akira Hisamatsu
Travelling monk

Zenji Yamada
Nobuchi's uncle
Keiji Itami
Kaji's father
Kiyoshi Kamoda
Doctor

Nobuo Kawakami
Undertaker