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Yôko Mizuki (screenplay)
Release Date:
12 June 1952 (Japan) more
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A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family. | full synopsis
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5 wins more
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Charming and rueful more (4 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Kinuyo Tanaka | ... | Masako Fukuhara |
| Kyôko Kagawa | ... | Toshiko Fukuhara |
| Eiji Okada | ... | Shinjiro |
| Akihiko Katayama | ... | Susumu Fukuhara |
| Daisuke Katô | ... | Uncle Kimura |
| Yônosuke Toba | ... | Naosuke Fukuhara |
| Masao Mishima | ... | Ryousuke Fukuhara |
| Chieko Nakakita | ... | Aunt Noriko |
| Atsuko Ichinomiya | ... | Koyo Fukuhara |
| Noriko Honma | ... | Mino Hirai |
| Sadako Sawamura | ... | O-Sei |
| Zeko Nakamura | ... | Shinzou Hirai |
| Ryutaro Nagai | ||
| Keiko Enami | ... | Hisako Fukuhara |
| Takashi Ito | ... | Tetsuo Kurihara |
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Mother (literal English title)
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98 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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OKASAN is one of the rare instances when Naruse was able to create a film with a little more humor than usual; for this reason, this study of an adolescent girl and her mother has moments of great charm, even though the general sadness which pervades so many of Naruse's films cannot help but add dimension to the story. The ending of the film is more upbeat than is usual for Naruse, and so the effect is bittersweet and rueful, rather than despairing and sad. It's a film full of delicate touches of great tenderness; it's a film that really does celebrate motherhood, though in a very unsentimental way. Though Naruse does emphasize the problems of the family, he allows the affection that the family feels for each other to texture the film with a feeling of genuine warmth. This remains a very special film for Naruse for this reason.