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The Only Son (Hitori musuko)

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Chôko Iida Chôko Iida
Tsune Nonomiya
Shin Shin'ichi Himori
Ryosuke Nonomiya
Masao Hayama Masao Hayama
Ryosuke Nonomiya, as child
Chishu Ryu Chishu Ryu
Professor Ookubo
Seiichi Katô Seiichi Katô
Kinjo no ko


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3 years, 1 month ago at Mar 7 16:56
(OK) I like the melancholy of the film, the non explicit undestanding and the lies and hard truths between mother and son; but Ozu is a bit heavy and clumsy in his first nosn silent film.
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In 1923, in the province of Shinshu, the widow and simple worker of a silk factory Tsune Nonomiya decides to send her only son to Tokyo for having a better education. Thirteen years later, she visits her son Ryosuke Nonomiya, and finds that he is a poor and frustrated night-school teacher with a wife, Sugiko, and a baby boy.
Release date: 1 April 1987
Tags: Japan (6), 1936 (5), 1930s (4), Drama (3), Japanese (2), Asian (1), B&w (1), Bw (1), 1920s (1), Poverty (1), 30s (1), 1930's (1), Youtube (1), 30's (1), Original Version (1), 87 Min. (1), Streaming (1)
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