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One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi (Shoichi Ozawa) rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral. He had been unwilling to take over the family business and had chosen a life as a middle school teacher far away from home, but considering the circumstances, he changes his mind. As the new chief of Hojuin, Harumichi scrambles around day after day for donations. He has kept strictly to the straight and narrow, until he passes a bicycle race track where the sounds of cheering fans induce him into a new way of life. (Nikkatsu)
(more)Cast
Shôichi Ozawa
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Bullet (1968)
Silence Has No Wings (1966)
Revenge (1964)
加藤嘉
Japan
Best movies:
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
Immortal Love (1961)
A Fugitive from the Past (1965)
Toyoko Takechi
Best movies:
New Tale of Zatoichi (1963)
Samurai Wolf (1966)
Pigs and Battleships (1961)
Yôko Minamida
Japan
Best movies:
The Crucified Lovers (1954)
The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957)
Pigs and Battleships (1961)
Kotoe Hatsui
Japan
Best movies:
Castle in the Sky (1986)
Story of a Prostitute (1965)
Live Today, Die Tomorrow (1970)
Masaya Takahashi
Japan
Best movies:
The Complex (2013)
Diaries of the Kamikaze (1967)
Noriko Matsumoto
Japan
Toshio Takahara
Japan
Takeshi Katô
Japan
Eimei Esumi
Japan
Best movies:
Youth of the Beast (1963)
渡辺美佐子
Japan
Best movies:
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)
The Great Passage (2013)
Chieko Misaki
Japan