On This Earth (1957)

Cast

Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyōko Kagawa, Keizō Kawasaki

Overview

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.