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★ 7.4/10 TMDB
1936-09-15
87 min
A rural widow sends her only son to Tokyo to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him and finds he has become a night school teacher struggling to support his wife and son.
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Billed Cast
Chōko Iida
Tsune Nonomiya
Shinichi Himori
Ryosuke Nonomiya
Masao Hayama
Young Ryosuke
Yoshiko Tsubouchi
Sugiko
Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Otaka, Ryosuke's neighbour
Tomio Aoki
Tomibo, Otaka's son
Chishū Ryū
Okubo, Ryosuke's teacher
Tomoko Naniwa
Okubo's Wife
Bakudan Kozo
Okubo's Son
Eiko Takamatsu
Oshige
Seiichi Katô
Neighbor
Kazuo Kojima
Kimiko
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