With Wife, Children, and Friends

Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes to Tokyo in 1926 from faraway Kagoshima to join the Tokyo police force. His closest friend is Nihei, a farmer's son from Tohoku who becomes the steadying influence on headstrong Henmi.

• Toshio YasumiScreenplay
• Umetsugu InoueDirector
• Chūji KinoshitaOriginal Music Composer

• Keiji SadaYonesaku Nihei
• Minoru ŌkiSaburota Henmi
• Hizuru TakachihoNobuko
• Miyuki KuwanoMichiyo
• Masahiko TsugawaRyushiro Henmi
• Tōru AbeHoshino
• Noriko MakiSetsuko Tamiya
• Shinichirō MikamiAkio
• Mitsuko MitoTakiyo Sugawa
• Fujio SugaInspector Honda
• Ryuji KitaCast
• Kōji MitsuiCast