Mother 1952

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Mother ★★★½ Okasan 1952

A Japanese family is undone after the devastation of WWII. An uncharacteristically dramatic, and thus more accessible, film from one of the Japanese cinema's greatest masters. In Japanese with English subtitles. 98m/B VHS . JP Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyoko Kagawa, Eiji Okada, Akihiko Katayama; D: Mikio Naruse.

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