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Brother and Sister is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Mikio Naruse with Machiko Kyō
Brother and Sister (1953)
Ani imōto (あにいもうと)
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Add to a movie listOlder Brother, Younger Sister (あにいもうと, Ani Imōto) is a 1953 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Mikio Naruse.
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The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon (Machiko Kyō) returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata (Eiji Funakoshi), which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San (Yoshiko Kuga), in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi (Masayuki Mori), decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.Actors
Machiko Kyō
(Mon)
Masayuki Mori
(Inokichi)
Yoshiko Kuga
(San)
Eiji Funakoshi
(Kobata)
Kumeko Urabe
(Riki - the Mother)
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