![]() ![]() Sakuma's former pupils decide to help him out with a gift of money, and Hirayama goes back to the restaurant to hand it over. They meet his middle-aged daughter Tomoko ( Haruko Sugimura), who missed the chance to marry when young and is now too old. Sakuma has too much to drink, and when Kawai and Hirayama take him home, they find that he has fallen on hard times and is running a cheap noodle restaurant in a working-class area. We learn from a remark of his that Hirayama went from school to the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, so would have been a career naval officer up to 1945. Their old teacher of Chinese classics, Sakuma ( Eijirō Tōno), nicknamed Hyōtan ("the Gourd"), attends one of the reunions. For example, Horie is teased about having a new young wife and asked whether he is taking pills to maintain his virility. They reminisce about old times and banter with each other. Hirayama and five of his classmates from middle-school, Kawai ( Nobuo Nakamura), Horie ( Ryūji Kita), Sugai (Tsūzai Sugawara), Watanabe (Masao Oda) and Nakanishi, hold regular reunions at a restaurant called Wakamatsu ("Young Pine"), which is owned by Sugai. Since his marriage, Kōichi has moved out to live with his wife in a small flat, leaving Hirayama and Kazuo to be looked after by Michiko. The ages of the children and what they respectively remember about their mother suggests that she died just before the end of the war, perhaps in the bombing of Tokyo in 1944–45. ![]() ![]() Shūhei Hirayama ( Chishū Ryū) is an aging widower with a 32-year-old married son, Kōichi ( Keiji Sada), and two unmarried children, 24-year-old daughter Michiko ( Shima Iwashita) and 21-year-old son Kazuo ( Shin'ichirō Mikami). ![]()
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