Bonchi

Overview

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is thrown out of the house for producing a son. Driven to a life of dissipation - his mistresses also fail to produce daughters - in the end he is just too tired to care.

Cast

Raizō Ichikawa

Kikuji

Ayako Wakao

Ponta

Fubuki Koshiji

Hisako

Mitsuko Kusabue

Ikako

Tamao Nakamura

Hiroko

Isuzu Yamada

Sei

Naritoshi Hayashi

Ganjirō Nakamura II

N/A

Kikue Mōri

Kino

Mayumi Kurata

Tanie Kitabayashi

Machiko Kyō

Ofuku