Apr 01, 1942
93 min
Full-HD

There Was a Father (1942)

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

Category

Drama

Country

Japan

Companies

Shochiku

Chishū Ryū

Shuhei Horikawa

Shūji Sano

Ryohei Horikawa

Haruhiko Tsuda

Young Ryohei

Shin Saburi

Yasutaro Kurokawa

Takeshi Sakamoto

Makoto Hirata

Mitsuko Mito

Fumi

Shinichi Himori

Minoru Uchida

Seiji Nishimura

Priest

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