A follow-up to Children in the Wind, Four Seasons of Children is also based on a Tsubota Joji novel. Read More »
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The Masseurs and a Woman AKA Anma to onna (1938) Hiroshi Shimizu, Shotaro Akagi, Shin’ichi Himori, Ayuko Hirano
Two blind masseurs Toku and Fuku walk to a mountain retreat to work for the season. Read More »
Hitori Musuko / Le Fils Unique (1936) Yasujirô Ozu, Chôko Iida, Shin’ichi Himori, Masao Hayama, Comedy, Drama
The film starts in the rural town of Shinshu in 1923. A widow, Tsune (O-Tsune) Nonomiya (Choko Iida), works hard at a silk production factory to provide for her only son, Ryosuke. When Ryosuke’s teacher Okubo (Chishu Ryu) persuades her to let her son continue to study beyond elementary school, she decides to support her son’s education even until college. Her son promises to become a great man…
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