110 minutos
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordinary vagrants' community but a fine autonomous organization, and as the municipal authorities have long been demanding that the people of Ant Village leave the site, Satoko is utilized to publicize the Village and win public sympathy. While being utilized in this manner, Satoko is nevertheless glad to be able to help the people of Ant Village, especially the children, and when the summer vacation comes she decides to take the children on an excursion to Hakone. To raise funds for this purpose she becomes a rag-picker herself.
Kakuko Chino
Satoko Kitahara
Kôji Nanbara
Shūji Sano
Kōji Mitsui
Jun Tatara
Fujio Suga
Akihiro Miwa
Fumio Watanabe
Machiko Mizuhara
Shizue Natsukawa
Mutsuko Sakura
Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Chōko Iida
Tatsuo Saitō
Zeko Nakamura
Hikaru Hoshi
Yasushi Nagata
Itoko Wakaura
Kaneko Iwasaki
William Ross
Elise Richter
Takeshi Sakamoto
Tokuji Kobayashi
