Kazue Tachibana

1957 Japanese movie

Un groupe d’anciens amis se retrouve et discute de l’avenir de leurs filles, désormais en âge de se marier. L’un d’eux, Wataru Hirayama, est un cadre supérieur fermement attaché à ses valeurs conservatrices, mais tenant parfois auprès de ses amis un discours progressiste sur l’amour et le mariage. Un jour, un jeune homme se présente à son bureau : il se nomme Masahiko Taniguchi et demande la main de Setsuko, sa fille aînée. La décision d’Hirayama est sans appel : il refuse que sa fille épouse l’homme qu’elle aime…

In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins bring bad luck, so the sister was abandoned at birth. Later her parents tell her that her sister was kidnapped. The woman doesn't believe this and when she eventually meets her twin, both women are involved in love affairs. The merchant's daughter is seeing an educated fellow. Trouble ensues when she begins suspecting that he may be more interested in her sister.