The Heart

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past.

• Kon IchikawaDirector
• Masao OkiOriginal Music Composer
• Yasushi AkutagawaOriginal Music Composer
• Keiji HasebeScreenplay
• Katsuhito InomataScreenplay

• Masayuki MoriNobuchi
• Michiyo AratamaShizu, Nobuchi's wife
• Tatsuya MihashiKaji
• Shōji YasuiHioki Jiro
• Tanie KitabayashiHioki's mother
• Akiko TamuraShizu's mother
• Mutsuhiko TsurumaruHioki's father
• Tsutomu ShimomotoHioki's elder brother
• Masami ShimojōEmployment agent
• Tomoko NaraokaKume, the maid
• Akira HisamatsuTravelling monk
• Zenji YamadaNobuchi's uncle