In Search of Mother

Year: 1962

Runtime: 83 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Tai Katō

Drama

A period drama set in Edo follows a solitary young man forced into yakuza life by a harsh existence. When he learns his mother may be living in the city, he travels there to reunite and abandon his swordsman’s violent ways, but a rival gang relentlessly pursues him, sparking dangerous confrontations.

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