is a 1950 Japanese
drama film
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directed by
Hiroshi Shimizu.
Plot
Toshiko, mother of three children, all from different fathers, travels from
Tokyo
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to the countryside to give them into foster care, as they get in the way to her occupation as a bar owner. After her daughter has been taken in by her brother Gentaro, himself father of eight children, and her younger son by her uncle Yokogawa, she heads for the home of her former nurse Oseki, who now runs a tea house in the mountains. On the way, Toshiko meets an elderly woman who looks after her grandchild, as her daughter, the child's mother and member of a troupe of travelling actors, refuses to give it away even under difficult circumstances. She resides at an inn with her elder son Fusao, where she falls ill and moves into a room with painter Takuoka as the inn is booked out. Mitsuko, Toshiko's business partner, pays her a visit and gets entangled with Takuoka. Toshiko eventually meets with Oseki, but instead of asking her to take Fusao in as she had originally intended, she decides to raise her children on her own, even if she will have to face financial hardships.
Cast
* Nijiko Kiyokawa as Toshiko Kamura
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Yatarō Kurokawa
(15 November 1910 – 23 June 1984) was a Japanese film actor.
Filmography
The filmography of Yatarō Kurokawa includes 228 films from 1935 to 1971: http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0120320.htm accessed 9 June 2009
* '' A Mother's Love'' (1 ...
as Takuoka, the painter
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Musei Tokugawa as Yokogawa, Toshiko's uncle
*
Roppa Furukawa as Gentaro, Toshiko's brother
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Chōko Iida as old lady
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Isuzu Yamada
was a Japanese stage and screen actress whose career spanned seven decades.
Biography
Yamada was born in Osaka as Mitsu Yamada, the daughter of Kusudu Yamada, a shinpa actor specialising in onnagata roles, and Ritsu, a geisha. Under her mothe ...
as Mitsuko
* Reiko Miyagawa as Fudeko, Yokogawa's daughter
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Kumeko Urabe as Oseki
* Kyōko Akemi
Legacy
''A Mother's Love'' was screened at the
Österreichische Filmmuseum in 2005
and at the
Cinémathèque française
A cinematheque is an archive of films and film-related objects with an exhibition venue. Similarly to a book library (bibliothèque in French), a cinematheque is responsible for preserving and making available to the public film heritage. Typically ...
in 2020 and 2021.
In its article on the Shimizu retrospective held at the Österreichische Filmmuseum, newspaper ''
Der Standard
''Der Standard'' () is an Austrian daily newspaper published in Vienna. It is considered a newspaper of record for Austria.
History and profile
''Der Standard'' was founded by Oscar Bronner as a financial newspaper and published its first editio ...
'' wrote, the female protagonist's "odyssey is a process of healing–as is the complete work of Hiroshi Shimizu".
References
External links
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1950 films
Japanese drama films
Japanese black-and-white films
Films directed by Hiroshi Shimizu
Shintoho films
Films scored by Yūji Koseki