Hideko Takamine and Akira Kishi are sister and brother. They live at a spa hotel, where Kishi works as a porter and Miss Takamine helps out in the gift shop. Because they are orphans, Kishi has raised his sister alone. Yet a shadow is about to fall on their world.
Miss Takamine was a nine-year veteran of the movies by the time she made this movie. She was also sixteen and growing out of the "Shirley Temple of Japan" roles; within a couple of years, she would become a young ingenue and lead, gradually expanding her range, often under the direction of Mikio Naruse. By the time she retired from the screen in 1979, her fifty-year career would extend to 179 features, work as a costume designer and Assistant Sirector, and an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. She died in 2010, aged 86.
This is a slight movie than concentrates on the loving yet seemingly casual relationship between Kishi and Miss Takamine.
Miss Takamine was a nine-year veteran of the movies by the time she made this movie. She was also sixteen and growing out of the "Shirley Temple of Japan" roles; within a couple of years, she would become a young ingenue and lead, gradually expanding her range, often under the direction of Mikio Naruse. By the time she retired from the screen in 1979, her fifty-year career would extend to 179 features, work as a costume designer and Assistant Sirector, and an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. She died in 2010, aged 86.
This is a slight movie than concentrates on the loving yet seemingly casual relationship between Kishi and Miss Takamine.