There Was a Father (1942)
父ありき
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
- Date of release
- 1942-04-01
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (86)
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Yasujirō Ozu
Casting
- Chishū Ryū — Shuhei Horikawa
- Shūji Sano — Ryohei Horikawa
- Haruhiko Tsuda — Young Ryohei
- Shin Saburi — Yasutaro Kurokawa
- Takeshi Sakamoto — Makoto Hirata
- Mitsuko Mito — Fumi
- Shinichi Himori — Minoru Uchida
- Seiji Nishimura — Priest
- Reikō Tani — Teacher of Chinese Literature
- Kanji Kawara — Teacher of Junior High School
- Yûsuke Kurata — Teacher of Junior High School
- Kenichi Miyajima — Company Employee
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