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Mother (1963)

Mother poster
Original title
Directed by
Kaneto Shindō
Genre
drama film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 40m
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman struggles to raise her children after her husband dies. The film follows her quiet day-to-day efforts to keep her family together.

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What happens

Mother (母, Haha) is a 1963 Japanese drama film written and directed by Kaneto Shindō and starring Nobuko Otowa, Haruko Sugimura, Taiji Tonoyama and Yoshitaka Zushi. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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