Ballad of a Workman (1962)
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family.
- Released
- 1962-08-12
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Keisuke Kinoshita, Keisuke Kinoshita
- TMDB rating
- 6.1/10 from 7 votes
Cast
- Hideko Takamine as Torae Nonaka
- Keiji Sada as Yoshio Nonaka, Torae's husband
- Yoshiko Kuga as Chiyo
- Chieko Baisho as Miyoko Ishikawa, Toshiyuki's girlfriend
- Toyozō Yamamoto as Toshiyuki Nonaka, Torae's son
- Kiyoshi Nonomura as Mr. Mochizuki
- Kin Sugai as Mrs. Mochizuki
- Teruko Kishi as Yoshio's mother
- Toranosuke Ogawa as Yoshio's father
- Takeshi Sakamoto
- Nobuo Takagi
- Ippei Souda