Burden of Love
The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after the other. - Nikkatsu
Yūzō Kawashima
Casts & Crew
Sō Yamamura
Tatsuya Mihashi
Isuzu Yamada
Mie Kitahara
Yukiko Todoroki
Eijirō Tōno
Taiji Tonoyama
Masao Mishima
Eitarō Ozawa
Tomoko Kō
Miki Odagiri
Kin Sugai
Emiko Azuma
Yoshiko Tsubouchi
Frankie Sakai
Shoichi Ozawa
Toranosuke Ogawa
Shinsuke Ashida
Yoshifumi Tajima
Shojiro Ogasawara
Yōko Benisawa
Hatsuko Wakahara
Tomio Aoki
Noriko Watanabe
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