The Rainbow-Colored Flower

Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish teenage war orphan who tries to offer herself for money but is instead taken in by Ebihara, Koyabu, a middle-aged woman who has spent much of her life as the kept woman of a wealthy man, and Teruko, the modest daughter of Ebihara's former teacher who comes to rely on him after the death of her father.

Setsuko Hara

Teruko

Haruko Sugimura

Koyabu

Rieko Sumi

Kazue

Ichirō Ryūzaki

Ebihara

Sugisaku Aoyama

Masao Shimizu

Takenaka

Minoru Chiaki

Ichirō Izawa

Sakurai

Masao Mishima

Nobuo Kaneko

Kashima

Yatsuko Tan'ami