A Brother and His Sister (1956)

8.0/10 101 min Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Ryō Ikebe

Kaisuke Mamiya

Setsuko Hara

Akiko Mamiya

Yōko Tsukasa

Fumiko Mamiya

Keiju Kobayashi

Utsumi

Akihiko Hirata

Michio

Hajime Izu

Ikuta

Kamatari Fujiwara

Shimura

Daisuke Katō

Hayashi

Daisuke Inoue

Kawai

Yutaka Sada

Policeman

Tatsuo Saitō

Arakawa

Hideo Shibuya

Employee

Mayumi Shirabato

Post Office Employee

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