Mother (1958)

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Mother (also known as Haha) is a 1958 daiei drama film,Directed by Shigeo Tanaka.

## Plot

Senkichi, who ran a factory in Tokyo during the war, evacuated to the countryside, but at the end of the war, his eldest son, Ryotaro, did not return to work, and he lost his energy. He didn't even try to rebuild the factory, and he was drinking every day, scolding his wife Kiyo and his children. Eizo has been particularly hard since he was divided into eight villages by his third son, Eizo's mischief. Ryotaro was demobilized and gave an opinion to his father, so Senkichi finally decided to return to Tokyo and rebuild the factory. It's been ten years. Ryotaro became a lawyer, Seiji became a sculptor, his eldest daughter Sakie married the Takayama family, Chiyoko took the stage, and Eizo became a college student. On the night of his father's 60th birthday, when Eizo was too late to buy a gift, Senkichi scolded him without even hearing Kiyo's intercession. Eizo left home and lived in a cabaret boy. Kiyo and Setsuko rescued Eizo, who had quarreled with the town bosses about his sister and fell down, and sent him to Eizo's childhood friend Setsuko's father's hospital. When he left the hospital and went home, the house was on fire. Senkichi, who was angry at the factory management, set fire to Kiyo's absence because he wanted insurance money. Eizo took the place of his father and went out on his own. When Senkichi fell ill and took a breath, he spoke everything cleanly. Ryotaro, who heard it from Kiyo, squeezed it as it was. A year later, Eizo, who was released, was greeted by Kiyo and taken over by Ryotaro's house. However, he left home while his brother was cold and went fishing under Setsuko's uncle Ijuin. The remittance from Eizo was dressed by Ryotaro and could not reach his mother's hands, and the couple had a hard time. Kiyo left the house and moved to Seiji's house, where he was also jammed, and when he moved to Sakie's house, he felt uncomfortable with his poverty and left without a hitch. She sat on a park bench and thought of the kind Eizo. The dining room where Kiyo lived was in a factory where Setsuko works as a female doctor. Setsuko met Kiyo by chance and informed Eizo of it. He returned to Tokyo immediately and went to the speech hall of his brother who was elected to the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly, and blamed his brother for his irresponsibility. I pulled him and tried to go to my mother. However, he stopped on the way and ran to his mother. Ryo who changed his mind now Taro, the whole family, and Setsuko all went to the graveyard on the hill. The eldest brother carried his mother on his back and everyone laughed peacefully.

## Cast

* Machiko kyo
* Ayako Wakao
* Aiko Mimasu
* Hiroshi Kawaguchi
* Yasuko Kawakami
* Eiji Funakoshi
* Ryuji Shinagawa
* Bontaro Miake
* Michiko Ono
* Yuko Yashio
* Noriko Hodaka
* Junko Kano

## Staff

* directed by Shigeo Tanaka
* Screenplay Ryozo Kasahara
* Planning Haruo Kawasaki
* Production Masaichi Nagata
* Photograph Michio Takahashi
* Art Shigeo Mano
* Musics Yuji Koseki
* Recording Mitsuo Hasegawa
* illumination Yukio Ito

## Titles

* Mother  (Japanese: 母,   *Hepburn: Haha*?, Original Japanese release title)

## Overview

A maternal love movie directed by Shigeo Tanaka of "Eyes of Tokyo" and directed by Michio Takahashi of "The Secret History of the Victory of the Russo-Japanese War" by Michio Takahashi, the original scenario of Ryozo Kasahara of "Mother Tsubame". Starring Aiko Mimasu from "The Kiss (1957)", Machiko Kyo from "Let's meet in Yurakucho", Kenji Sugawara, Jun Negami from "3 am in the big city", and Eiji Funakoshi from Hiroshi Kawaguchi "Hitomi of Tokyo" Such. In addition, Bontaro Miake, Michiko Ono, Rieko Sumi, Yasuko Kawakami, Takashi Shimura, Ayako Wakao, Koji Tsuruta, Kuniko Miyake, Fujiko Yamamoto and others will be supporting actors.