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A Brother and His Sister

8.0 101 mins Drama   1956
TOHO  
Director(s): Shūe Matsubayashi

Release Date: 19 Wed, Sep 1956

In a household of three the husband is a salaryman who lives with his younger sister and wife in Tokyo. He is returning home late in the evenings because he plays go, or a Japanese version of chess, with his boss. The wife and sister are unhappy about this. The man's co-worker advises him to stop the late evenings out with the boss, but the man cares less. His sister works at a foreign firm and speaks English. When a man who had earlier visited her workplace returns and asks her out for dinner, she rejects him by lying about a husband. He had made impolite comments about her in English during his earlier visit not realizing she understands him.

Casts of A Brother and His Sister

Ryō Ikebe

as Kaisuke Mamiya

Setsuko Hara

as Akiko Mamiya

Yōko Tsukasa

as Fumiko Mamiya

Keiju Kobayashi

as Utsumi

Akihiko Hirata

as Michio

Hajime Izu

as Ikuta

Kamatari Fujiwara

as Shimura

Daisuke Katō

as Hayashi

Toppa Utsumi

as Sawada

Yutaka Oka

as Employee B

Daisuke Inoue

as Kawai

Hiroshi Akitsu

as Hayashi's Co-worker

Eiko Kano

as Maid

Sumiko Koizumi

as Mitsuko

Yoko Mari

as Sachiko

Yutaka Sada

as Policeman

Tatsuo Saitō

as Arakawa

Hideo Shibuya

as Employee

Mayumi Shirabato

as Post Office Employee

Yûko Sonoda

as Ruriko

Michiko Tsuyama

as Masako

Eijirō Yanagi

as Boss Arita

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