A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself 'already dead'.
Director: Mikio Naruse, Yūzō Kawashima
Screenplay: Toshirō Ide, Zenzō Matsuyama
Director of Photography: Jun Yasumoto, Tadashi Iimura