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Kinuyo Tanaka, Masao Mishima, Akihiko Katayama, Kyoko Kagawa, Eiji Okada ... see more see more... , Daisuke Katô , Chieko Nakakita , Yonosuke Toba

Mother is a story of contemporary Japan. The film is predicated on an annual nationwide contest at Tokyo schools, wherein the students are invited to write about their mothers. One of the students is ... read more read more...Kyoto Kagawa, whose relationship with her mother Kinuyo Tanaka is strained at best. Through Kyoto's eyes, the viewer is privy to the growing pains of young Japanese womanhood, including "first romance". Avoiding the pomp and circumstance of many Japanese films of the period, Mother is an intensely realistic (and occasionally pessimistic) look at all-too-human characters. Completed in 1952, the film was the only one of director Mikio Naruse's efforts to receive an American release in the 1950s. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 38 min.

Directed by: Mikio Naruse

Release Date: June 12, 1952

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Keith Uhlich
February 14, 2006
Keith Uhlich, Slant Magazine

Simultaneously sentimental and meta. Full Review

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