Oshin

Overview

Oshin comes from a family of poor rice farmers. Her father and brother must work in the fields and her grandmother and mother, who is expecting another child, barely have enough to eat. In order to make ends meet for her family, 7-year-old Oshin gives up school and decides to become a servant in the household of a wealthy family, where she faces trials and tribulation beyond her worst fears.

Cast

Ayako Kobayashi

Pinko Izumi

Shirō Itō

Teruko Nagaoka

Aya Shikiya

Taro Ishida

Chitose Kobayashi

Eiji Okuda

Masanobu Ōkubo

Aki Takejo