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Mother

Mother

Original title
Okaasan
Year
1952
Gender
Drama
Director
Mikio Naruse
Country
Japan
Details
98 minutes / black & white / sound

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  • Criterion Channel
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Okaasan is the story of a poor, working class mother with a sick husband who sacrifices herself to support her family in suburban Tokyo. The film defines "Shomin Geki," a Japanese film genre that features realistic depiction of the economic underclass, told with elements of light comedy and melodrama. Okaasan is the best-known work of director Mikio Naruse, hailed by Japanese film historians as an equal of Kurosawa, Ozu and Mizoguchi, but under-appreciated in the West

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