Mother
7.5
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
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Cast
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Kinuyo Tanaka
Masako Fukuhara
Known for
Sansho the Bailiff
Ugetsu
Kyōko Kagawa
Toshiko Fukuhara
Known for
High and Low
Sansho the Bailiff
Eiji Okada
Shinjiro Hirai
Known for
Woman in the Dunes
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Akihiko Katayama
Susumu Fukuhara
Also in
The Lady of Musashino
Vendetta of a Samurai
Daisuke Katō
Sokichi Kimura
Known for
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Yōnosuke Toba
Naosuke Fukuhara
Also in
Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
Okuni and Gohei
Masao Mishima
Ryosuke Fukuhara
Known for
Harakiri
Late Spring
Chieko Nakakita
Noriko Kurihara
Known for
Drunken Angel
One Wonderful Sunday
Eiko Miyoshi
Grandmother
Known for
Stray Dog
Throne of Blood
Atsuko Ichinomiya
Koyo Fukuhara
Known for
The Bad Sleep Well
Noriko Honma
Mino Hirai
Known for
Rashomon
Stray Dog
Sadako Sawamura
Osei
Known for
Good Morning
Street of Shame
Mikio Naruse Director · Yōko Mizuki Screenplay Ichirō Saitō Composer
First release June 12, 1952 · Produced in Japan · Original title おかあさん
Production
Shintoho Company
Production
Japan
Produced in
Languages
Original title
おかあさん
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · June 12, 1952
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
December 1, 1954 · Theatrical
June 9, 2021 · Theatrical · Re-Release
Russia
May 8, 2001 · Limited theatrical · Retrospective of Mikio Naruse (Moscow)
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