On This Earth
6.3
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.
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Cast
50 people
Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Heiichiro Okawa
Known for
Floating Weeds
Hitomi Nozoe
Wakako Yoshikura
Known for
Floating Weeds
Masaichi Nagata
Akira Ifukube
Kōzaburō Yoshimura
Seijirō Shimada
Kinuyo Tanaka
Omitsu, Heiichiro's mother
Known for
Sansho the Bailiff
Ugetsu
Kaneto Shindō
Also in
The Battleship on the Ground
Hymn
Shigeo Mano
Kyōko Kagawa
Fuyuko
Known for
High and Low
Sansho the Bailiff
Yoshihisa Nakagawa
Keizō Kawasaki
Tokio, Wakako's brother
Also in
Warning from Space
The Blue Sky Maiden
Kōzaburō Yoshimura Director · Kaneto Shindō Writer Seijirō Shimada Story
First release November 22, 1957 · Produced in Japan · Original title 地上
Production
Daiei Film
Production
Japan
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Languages
Original title
地上
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · November 22, 1957
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Russia
August 1, 1959 · Theatrical
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