There Was a Father

Year: 1942

Runtime: 93 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Yasujirô Ozu

Drama

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

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