"Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking care of the land)-- and the modernity and lure of a life in the city."
Mariko Okada
as
Keiju Kobayashi
Hiroshi Koizumi
Yōko Sugi
Makoto Kobori
Akihiko Hirata
Eijirō Tōno
Noriko Honma
Kiyoshi Kamoda
Kazuko Ran
Mitsue Tachibana
Fuyuki Murakami
Sachio Sakai
Zeko Nakamura
Kajirō Yamamoto
Director
Writer
Raymond Gallois-Montbrun
Music
Yoshiharu Bandô
Editor
Junro Ishikawa
Lighting Technician
Kazuo Baba
Production Supervisor
Producer
Akira Watanabe
Art Direction
Masao Fujiyoshi
Sound Recordist
Dai Nishijima
Yasuhide Kato
Production Design
Taiichi Kankura
Director of Photography