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Could I But Live

1964 · Zenzō Matsuyama · 108 min

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After receiving a phone call from a woman whose child has contracted polio, government official Masayoshi Sakata decides to do everything he can to eradicate the disease.

Keiju KobayashiMasayoshi Sakata

Hideko TakamineNoriko Nemoto

Yaeko MizutaniYumi

Kon OmuraSatoru Kumagai

Shirō ŌtsujiJiro Nemoto

Isao KimuraProfessor Hiraoka

Kin SugaiSetsuko Sakata

Fumiko OkamuraMother Nobu

Jun TazakiDirector Tagami TTetsuo HasegawaAbe SShigeo NakaharaHani KKikue MōriHikotaro's Mother

Etsuko IchiharaMother

Akira NagoyaStaff Member at Health Ministry

Jun HamamuraMuramatsu

Cast

Keiju KobayashiMasayoshi Sakata

Hideko TakamineNoriko Nemoto

Yaeko MizutaniYumi

Kon OmuraSatoru Kumagai

Shirō ŌtsujiJiro Nemoto

Isao KimuraProfessor Hiraoka

Kin SugaiSetsuko Sakata

Fumiko OkamuraMother Nobu

Jun TazakiDirector Tagami TTetsuo HasegawaAbe SShigeo NakaharaHani KKikue MōriHikotaro's Mother

Etsuko IchiharaMother

Akira NagoyaStaff Member at Health Ministry

Jun HamamuraMuramatsu

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