On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.
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Ayako Wakao Takahiro Tamura Yūzō Hayakawa Mikio Narita Shoichi Ozawa Yuka Konno Taiji Tonoyama Nobuo Chiba Noriko Hodaka Reiko Hoshikawa Takashi Nakamura Koh Sugita Mantarō Ushio Tamae Kiyokawa Eiichi Takamura Hikaru Hoshi Jun Osanai Kisao Tobita Daigo Inoue Wakayo Matsumura Setsuko Kawasumi Hiroko Machida
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