Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is Rentaro is not amused. Just afterwards she notices that he is reading a magazine which carries her picture which he crushes and throws under his seat. One of her customers in Tokyo is a pretty girl named Kana for whom she had designed a dress which at first seems quite satisfactory. But a few days later Kana brings it back. It seems her brother thinks it terrible. But when Kana brings the dress back she meets Aya's brother, Takeshi, with whom she becomes friendly and Takeshi gives her a new dress which he smuggles out of his sister's office. When Aya finds Kana's discarded dress and misses one belonging to another customer she goes to see Kana's brother, and to her surprise finds him to be the fellow whose foot she'd stepped upon in the train...
Kōji Shima
Director
Machiko Kyō
Aya Koyanagi
Kenji Sugawara
Rentaro Shinohara
Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Takeshi Koyanagi
Hitomi Nozoe
Kana Shinohara
Yoshirō Kitahara
Shimizu
Michiko Ono
Shinko
Ryūji Shinagawa
Announcer
Satoko Minami
Sadako Yamanaka
Junko Kano
Fusae Shimazaki
Atsuko Kindaichi
Miss Sekine
Yoshihiro Hamaguchi
Hirota
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