Toshio Shimura

A Japanese war-era comedy film.

Kingorô Yanagiya gets married against his will. Eventually they have two sons in their poverty-riddled wanderings, and she dies. A rich couple foster the younger boy, while Yanagiya and the other....

Ken'ichi Enomoto is studying to be a great warrior, but he is a hasty youth. When he continues through with an attack when ordered to stop -- because there is no pausing in a real battle -- he is told that he will not be in the team at the fair the next day. He doesn't know what to tell his mother, but mothers know everything, don't they? So he is given a letter to carry to a priest. However, the path is haunted by ghosts and giants and fox spirits and he gets into a lot of trouble.