A Woman's Life (1955)
Original title: 女の一生
A Woman's Life is a 1955 Japanese-language drama movie directed by Noboru Nakamura. It stars Chikage Awashima, Masami Taura and Tokuji Kobayashi.
The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mother in pre-war Japan.
Cast
- Chikage Awashima as Nobuko Miki
- Masami Taura as Makoto Musuko, Nobuko's son
- Tokuji Kobayashi as Nobuko's father
- Kumeko Urabe as Nobuko's mother
- Fujio Suga as brother Daisuke
- Ken Uehara as Kujō, Nobuko's husband
- Mitsuko Kusabue as Yumiko Kagami
- Toshiko Kobayashi as Sumiko
- Shozo Suzuki as Aoshima
- Hitomi Nozoe as Midori, Aoshima's younger sister
- Sachiko Murase as Aoshima's mother
- Eiichi Sugasawara as Shojiro Enami