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The Portrait (1948)

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Original title
肖像
Directed by
Keisuke Kinoshita
Genre
drama
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 13m
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman struggles to support herself and her family in postwar Japan. Her fortunes take a turn when she gets a job helping a lonely former actress with a secret.

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What happens

El retrato de Midori (en japonés: 肖像, romanizado: Shōzō) es una película de comedia dramática japonesa de 1948 dirigida por Keisuke Kinoshita y protagonizada por Kuniko Igawa, Eitarō Ozawa y Kamatari Fujiwara.​​ (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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