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A Japanese Tragedy

1953 · Keisuke Kinoshita · 116 min

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At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.

Yūko MochizukiHaruko InoueKeiji SadaTatsuyaTeiji TakahashiSatoYōko KatsuragiHaruko's daughterSanae TakasugiMrs. AkazawaKen UeharaMasayuki AkazawaKeiko AwajiWakamaru, a geishaShinichi HimoriFujio SugaFujitaTanie KitabayashiIchizo's wifeJun TataraMasami TauraHaruko's sonEijirō YanagiIwamiTokuji KobayashiRyōko Mizuki

Cast

Yūko MochizukiHaruko InoueKeiji SadaTatsuyaTeiji TakahashiSatoYōko KatsuragiHaruko's daughterSanae TakasugiMrs. AkazawaKen UeharaMasayuki AkazawaKeiko AwajiWakamaru, a geishaShinichi HimoriFujio SugaFujitaTanie KitabayashiIchizo's wifeJun TataraMasami TauraHaruko's sonEijirō YanagiIwamiTokuji KobayashiRyōko Mizuki

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