A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family.
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Hideko Takamine as Torae Nonaka
Keiji Sada as Yoshio Nonaka, Torae's husband
Yoshiko Kuga as Chiyo
Chieko Baisho as Miyoko Ishikawa, Toshiyuki's girlfriend
Toyozō Yamamoto as Toshiyuki Nonaka, Torae's son
Kiyoshi Nonomura as Mr. Mochizuki
Kin Sugai as Mrs. Mochizuki
Teruko Kishi as Yoshio's mother
Toranosuke Ogawa as Yoshio's father
Yoshi Sugihara Editor
Masao Shirai Producer
Ryozo Toyoshima Lighting Technician
Keisuke Kinoshita Producer
Hisao Ohno Sound Recordist
Keisuke Kinoshita Screenplay
Urayama Yoshiro Art Direction
Hiroshi Kusuda Director of Photography
Keisuke Kinoshita Director
Chūji Kinoshita Original Music Composer
Futari de aruita iku haru aki Trailer
Ballad of a Worker Trailer
Japan 12 August 1962
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1962:
26 October 1962
The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.
15 September 1962
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual.
02 March 1962
When a little girl is knocked down it is discovered that there are only three donors of the right blood type to help with a life-saving operation.
14 January 1962
A king Parthiban (Ramadas) gifts a rare anklet (salangai) to a dancer Aparajita (Kumari Madhuri). She begets the king's son, Amarendran and hands him over to a priest along with the anklet.
02 October 1962
Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals.
01 January 1962
A group of boys playing near the seashore in Tokyo find a goat, kill it in a tug of war for ownership, bury it with ceremony, and, except for one boy, run off in heedless laughter ready for more games.
16 October 1962
Harry Brown is a somewhat rough and wild university student, who has the ability to win friends, especially the underdogs like Phil who doesn't play 'rugger' and can't sink a whole pint of beer, and African student Reggie.
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