¡Okaasan
¡Japanese Movie
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[Machine Translation] [Mikio Naruse's tear-jerking portrayal of a mother's love for her childlike spirit. --Toshiko (Kyoko Kagawa) lives with her small mother, Masako (Kinuyo Tanaka), her strong father (Masao Mishima), who she calls Popeye's father, her younger sister, Chako, and her cousin, Tetsu-chan. One day, the elder brother Susumu ( Akihiko Katayama ) becomes ill at his place of employment and escapes from the hospital to return home, but dies while being cared for by his family. Her father, who had rebuilt the dry cleaning business on his own, also died from overwork. Toshiko wants to enter a dressmaking school, but she cannot afford the tuition, so she has no choice but to help out at the dry-cleaning shop. Still, she lives day by day... Yoko Mizuki wrote the screenplay based on "Mama-san," a collection of spellings collected from all over Japan. After this film, director Mikio Naruse and Yoko Mizuki teamed up to produce masterpieces such as Married Couple ('53), Floating Clouds ('55), and A Shower ('56). ('56) and other masterpieces.
Original Release Year: 1952
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