The Wiser Age

The Ishikawa family lives in Tokyo. They keep a general goods store. The father of the house falls ill. His condition grows worse. Telegrams are sent to the children. All of them are called home. The five sisters come together. The daughter in law of the house is with them. Each has her own life and her own trouble. The future of the store is discussed. One of the sisters moves into the shop with her husband. The expectation of an inheritance sits down at the table. The division inside the family becomes visible. The marriages of the women enter the story too. They are caught between tradition and a new kind of life. The film shows postwar Japan through one family. Hideko Takamine and Yōko Tsukasa appear in the one hundred eleven minute film, a Japanese production Mikio Naruse finished in 1962.