The Rickshaw Man

Why does a rough, unlettered rickshaw driver take on a stranger's grief as his own? Matsugorō Tomishima (Toshirō Mifune) begins helping Yoshiko Yoshioka (Hideko Takamine) and her young son after her husband, a captain, dies without warning. He asks for nothing, and she cannot quite say what to make of him. Hiroshi Inagaki, remaking his own 1943 film, shoots it in color.