In 1928, schoolteacher Hisako Oishi takes a post on the island of Shodoshima teaching a group of twelve first grade students. In the following years, they face poverty, the rise of nationalism, and finally war.
Hideki Gôko
Itsuo Watanabe
Kunio Satô
Makoto Miyagawa
Takahiro Tamura
Takeo Terashita
Toshiko Kobayashi
Yumeji Tsukioka
笠智衆
高峰秀子