A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Shinji Tanaka, Yūko Mochizuki, Takahiro Tamura, Yoshiko Kuga, Isuzu Yamada, Eijirō Tōno
Crew: Keisuke Kinoshita (Director), Yoshiko Kusuda (Writer), Chūji Kinoshita (Original Music Composer), Hiroshi Kusuda (Director of Photography), Kôzô Kubo (Producer), Yoshi Sugihara (Editor)
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Studio: Shochiku
Runtime: 78 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Apr 17, 1956
IMDb: 4.1
Keywords:adultery, the smell of fish
