A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.
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Hisahiro Ogura
Satomi Haruta
Kaho Minami
Mitsuko Noguchi
Yasuo Daichi
Ryūichi Tatsumi
Hiroshi Nishikawa
Tetsutarō
Sumiko Yamada
Tomoko
Happou Tsukitei
Kan'ichi Furukawa
Nikaku Shōfukutei
Yoshitake
Kei Suma
Hajime Hirose
Terue Shoji
Matsue
Kinshi Katsura
Eisuke Murata
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo.
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