Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960 Japanese film
- Setsuko Hara
- Masayuki Mori
- Hideko Takamine
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Toho
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother (娘・妻・母, Musume • tsuma • haha) is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse.[2]
Plot
Sanae, a recent widow and the eldest daughter of a family, returns to her mother, eldest brother and his brother's wife. The family argues over what to do with the money Sanae's husband left her.[2]
Cast
- Setsuko Hara as Sanae Sakanoshi, the eldest daughter
- Masayuki Mori as Yūichirō Sakanishi, the eldest son
- Hideko Takamine as Kazuko Sakanishi, Yuichiro's wife
- Reiko Dan as Haruko Sakanishi, the third daughter
- Mitsuko Kusabue as Kaoru Sakanishi, the second daughter
- Aiko Mimasu as Aki Sakanishi, the mother
- Akira Takarada as Reiji Sakanishi, the younger son
- Tatsuya Nakadai as Shingo Kuroki, a brewing engineer
- Hiroshi Koizumi as Hidetaka Tani, Kaoru's husband
- Haruko Sugimura as Kayo Tani, Hidetaka's mother
- Keiko Awaji as Mie Banishi, Reiji's wife
- Hiroshi Tachikawa as Makoto Asabuki, Haruko's lover
- Daisuke Katō as Shōsuke Tetsumoto, Kazuko's uncle
- Ken Uehara as Sokei Gojō, Sanae's matchmaker
- Chishū Ryū as old man in park
Release
Daughters, Wives and a Mother received a roadshow theatrical release at the Yūraku-za Theatre in Tokyo, Japan on 21 May 1960. It was the first Japanese film to play at the theatre since World War II.[3] It received a general release on 28 May 1960. The film was Toho's highest-grossing film production of 1960 and the eighth highest-grossing Japanese production of 1960. It was released in the United States with English subtitles by Toho International on December 1, 1978.[2]
References
- ^ "娘・妻・母". Japanese Movia Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 21 July 2023.
- ^ a b c d Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. p. 170. ISBN 978-1461673743. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
- ^ "Foreign Film Distribs Leery Over Trend In Japan Vs. Roadshow Pix". Variety. 29 June 1960. p. 17. Retrieved 13 February 2021 – via Archive.org.
External links
- Daughters, Wives and a Mother at IMDb
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Films directed by Mikio Naruse
- Flunky, Work Hard! (1931)
- No Blood Relation (1932)
- Apart from You (1933)
- Every-Night Dreams (1933)
- Street Without End (1934)
- Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (1935)
- Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
- The Girl in the Rumor (1935)
- Morning's Tree-Lined Street (1936)
- Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro (1938)
- The Whole Family Works (1939)
- Sincerity (1939)
- Travelling Actors (1940)
- Hideko the Bus Conductor (1941)
- The Song Lantern (1943)
- Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka (1950)
- Battle of Roses (1950)
- Ginza Cosmetics (1951)
- Dancing Girl (1951)
- Repast (1951)
- Mother (1952)
- Lightning (1952)
- Husband and Wife (1953)
- Wife (1953)
- Older Brother, Younger Sister (1953)
- Sound of the Mountain (1954)
- Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
- Floating Clouds (1955)
- Sudden Rain (1956)
- A Wife's Heart (1956)
- Flowing (1956)
- Untamed (1957)
- Anzukko (1958)
- Summer Clouds (1958)
- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
- Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960)
- The Approach of Autumn (1960)
- As a Wife, As a Woman (1961)
- A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)
- Yearning (1964)
- The Stranger Within a Woman (1966)
- Scattered Clouds (1967)
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