Mother

Mother

1952•1h 38m•6.9/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.9/10(19)

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

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Production

Shintoho Company

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Kinuyo Tanaka

Kinuyo Tanaka

Masako Fukuhara

Kyōko Kagawa

Kyōko Kagawa

Toshiko Fukuhara

Eiji Okada

Eiji Okada

Shinjiro Hirai

Akihiko Katayama

Akihiko Katayama

Susumu Fukuhara

Daisuke Katō

Daisuke Katō

Sokichi Kimura

Yōnosuke Toba

Yōnosuke Toba

Naosuke Fukuhara

Masao Mishima

Masao Mishima

Ryosuke Fukuhara

Chieko Nakakita

Chieko Nakakita

Noriko Kurihara

Eiko Miyoshi

Eiko Miyoshi

Grandmother

Atsuko Ichinomiya

Atsuko Ichinomiya

Koyo Fukuhara

Noriko Honma

Noriko Honma

Mino Hirai

Sadako Sawamura

Sadako Sawamura

Osei

Zeko Nakamura

Zeko Nakamura

Shinzo Hirai

Ryutaro Nagai

Keiko Enami

Hisako Fukuhara

Takashi Itô

Tetsuo Kurihara

Shigeru Ogura

Shigeru Ogura

Masaru Kodaka

Masao Takamatsu

Tatsuhiro Oka

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