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There Was a Father is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Yasujirō Ozu with Mitsuko Mito
There Was a Father (1942)
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Add to a movie listThere Was a Father is a 1942 Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu.
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Shuhei Horikawa (Chishū Ryū) works as a mathematics schoolteacher in a middle school. A widower, he has a ten-year-old son named Ryohei (Haruhiko Tsuda), who studies in the same school. While taking his class out for an excursion one day, one of his pupils drowns after running off with a classmate on a secret boat trip. Shuhei blames himself for the accident, and quits his teaching job out of remorse.Actors
Mitsuko Mito
(Fumi)
Chishū Ryū
(Shuhei Horikawa)
Shin Saburi
(Yasutaro Kurokawa)
Shinichi Himori
(Minoru Uchida)
Takeshi Sakamoto
(Makoto Hirata)
Kenji Ōyama
(Graduate)
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