Maria of the Ant Village

Maria of the Ant Village (1958)

Drama

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.

Director: Heinosuke Gosho
Writer: Keiji Hasebe

Casts

	Kakuko Chino as Satoko Kitahara
	Kōji Nanbara as
	Shūji Sano as
	Kōji Mitsui as
	Jun Tatara as
	Fujio Suga as
	Akihiro Miwa as
	Fumio Watanabe as
	Machiko Mizuhara as
	Shizue Natsukawa as
	Mutsuko Sakura as
	Mitsuko Yoshikawa as
	Chōko Iida as
	Tatsuo Saitō as
	Zeko Nakamura as
	Hikaru Hoshi as
	Yasushi Nagata as
	Itoko Wakaura as
	Kaneko Iwasaki as
	William Ross as
	Elise Richter as
	Takeshi Sakamoto as
	Tokuji Kobayashi as

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