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30 May 1979 (USA) moreGenre:
DramaAwards:
3 wins moreUser Comments:
Japanese Melodrama moreCast
(Credited cast) | Keiko Awaji | ... | Wakamaru, a geisha |
| Yôko Katsuragi | ... | Haruko's daughter |
| Yûko Mochizuki | ... | Haruko Inoue |
| Keiji Sada | ... | Tatsuya, street musician |
| Sanae Takasugi | ... | Mrs. Akazawa |
| Masami Taura | ... | Haruko's son |
| Ken Uehara | ... | Masayuki Akazawa, the English teacher |
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116 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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During and after WWII, a mother provided for her two children by becoming a prostitute. Now grown up, her son and daughter, social climbers both, find her an embarrassment and abandon her.
Director Kinoshita's rather obvious attempts to link this story to the greater problems of Japanese society by frequently inserting newspaper headlines and documentary footage is a distraction more than anything else.
Fortunately, he seems to give up on that idea around the halfway point to concentrate on what is at heart a great melodrama, with a fine performance by Yûko Mochizuki as the mother and a masterfully filmed climactic scene