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Mother and Her Eleven Children (1966)

Mother and Her Eleven Children poster
Original title
かあちゃんと11人の子ども
Directed by
Heinosuke Gosho
Genre
drama film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 46m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A mother struggles to raise her eleven children alone in postwar Japan. The film follows their daily hardships and small joys as they try to stay together as a family.

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What happens

«Мать и одиннадцать детей» (яп. かあちゃんと11人の子ども, Ка: тян то дзю: итинин но кодомо) — художественный фильм японского режиссёра Хэйноскэ Госё, снятый им в 1966 году. Как и почти все работы режиссёра, снят фильм в жанре сёмин-гэки (реалистический показ жизни простых людей, из бедняков или из среднего класса). С 1969 года фильм демонстрировался в кинопрокате СССР. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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