The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war .
Rentaro Mikuni
Ken Takakura
Yoshi Katō
Akiko Kazami
Hiroshi Minami
Katsuo Nakamura
Eijirō Tōno
Tatsuo Umemiya
Mitsue Komiya
Harue Tone
Machiko Yashiro
Rinichi Yamamoto
Takeshi Hasebe
Michiko Hoshi
Takashi Kanda
Fusatarō Ishijima
Akitake Kōno
Hiroshi Tomono
Yuriko Hanabusa
Hideharu Koganei
Yasushi Nagata
Ichirô Kojima
Mitsuko Kayama
Sakae Shima
Sumiko Hidaka
相馬道子
Kōji Sekiyama
Kaoru Nakano
Koichi Itagaki
帆足隆幸
津山勝美
Ushio Akashi
小沢あけみ
Tokue Hanazawa
Tadashi Minamikawa
Koji Sahara
Kyoko Shinobazu
Shōhachi Uchikoshi
Akira Takizawa
Hideo Sekigawa
Director
Kaneto Shindō
Writer
Ichirō Saitō
Original Music Composer
