Jun 12, 1952
98 min
Full-HD

Mother (1952)

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

Kinuyo Tanaka

Masako Fukuhara

Kyōko Kagawa

Toshiko Fukuhara

Eiji Okada

Shinjiro Hirai

Akihiko Katayama

Susumu Fukuhara

Daisuke Katō

Sokichi Kimura

Yōnosuke Toba

Naosuke Fukuhara

Masao Mishima

Ryosuke Fukuhara

Chieko Nakakita

Noriko Kurihara

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Mother (1952)

Kinuyo Tanaka

Kyōko Kagawa

Eiji Okada

Akihiko Katayama

Daisuke Katō

Yōnosuke Toba

Masao Mishima

Chieko Nakakita