No Blood Relation (1932)

Original title

生さぬ仲

Directed by

Mikio Naruse

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 19m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman returns to Japan after years abroad and tries to reclaim the daughter she left behind. The child's adoptive mother and the birth mother clash over who should raise her.

silentmelodramaticemotionaldeliberatestarkfamily-centricclassic

What happens

No Blood Relation (生さぬ仲, Nasanu naka) is a 1932 Japanese silent drama film directed by Mikio Naruse, based on a novel by Shunyo Yanagawa. It is the earliest surviving feature-length film by the director. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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