Okatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth century Edo, Japan. Her frugality attracts unflattering comment even amid national tough times (the region is in famine) What Okatsu tells no one is that she saves so that a friend can start his own business once he's released from prison.
Yo Takeyama | Writer |
Natto Wada | Writer |
Ryudo Uzaki | Original Music Composer |
Yukio Isohata | Director of Photography |
Yoshinobu Nishioka | Production Design |
Teiichi Saitô | Sound |
Kazuo Shimomura | Gaffer |
Chizuko Osada | Editor |
Kon Ichikawa | Director |
Shūgorō Yamamoto | Novel |