Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder brother, Ichiro, works at the Bank of Japan whose wife, Masuko, is from a very high-class family. Mototsugu becomes disgusted with such strait-laced living and leaves home to marry Yoshiko, a blind masseuse, and they live in a small apartment near a pinball parlor where he works.
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Cast
17 people
Homare Suguro
Also in
Operation: Mystery
None but the Brave
Kei Yamamoto
Mototsugu Sakawa
Known for
Shutter
The Bullet Train
Noboru Nakamura
Also in
Zoku jūdai no seiten
Toru Takemitsu
Takeshi Fukasawa
Chieko Baisho
Yoshiko Sakawa
Known for
Howl's Moving Castle
Weathering with You
Tōichirō Narushima
Ayako Sono
Haruko Wanibuchi
Kyoko Iwama
Known for
House
One Missed Call 2
Kiminobu Satô
Kinuko Obata
Also in
Broken Blossoms
Heiji, the Detective
Takeshi Fukazawa
Noboru Nakamura Director · Ayako Sono Story Tōru Takemitsu Composer
First release March 29, 1964 · Produced in Japan · Original title 二十一歳の父
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Japan
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Original title
二十一歳の父
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · March 29, 1964
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No release date listed for United States.
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