Based on a novel by Toson Shimazaki, the film revolves around a schoolteacher who is encouraged to conceal his lower class background but constantly finds himself struggling with a crisis of conscience.
At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area of low-class “untouchables,” leaving his hometown to serve as an elementary school teacher where he excels and is loved by his students. But he constantly struggles with the secret of his low-birth status and is disturbed by all of the discrimination levelled upon his class. It prevents him from pursuing a romance with Shiho, whom he meets at the temple where he resides, but who descends from a samurai family.
Norio Kida
Screenplay
Kazuo Kato
Producer
Masato Katō
Screenplay
Kazuo Maeda
Director
Shuhei Kamimura
Original Music Composer
Gaku Kawasaki
Producer
Makoto Kusaka
Director of Photography
Anna Ishii
Shiho
Shotaro Mamiya
Ushimatsu Segawa
Yuma Yamoto
Kazuya Takahashi
Ayako Kobayashi
Kô Nanase
Shunsuke Daitoh
Naoto Takenaka
Hirotaro Honda
Yoji Tanaka
Renji Ishibashi
Hidekazu Mashima
