No Blood Relation
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In No Blood Relation, a gripping early example of Mikio Naruse’s cinematic boldness, featuring a screenplay by Ozu’s famed collaborator Kogo Noda, an actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years before.
Direction
Screenplay
Cast
Yoshiko Okada
Tamae Kiyooka
Shin'yō Nara
Shunsaku Atsumi
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Yukiko Tsukuba
Masako, Shunsaku's Wife
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Toshiko Kojima
Shigeko, Shunsaku's Daughter
Fumiko Katsuragi
Kishiyo, Shunsaku's Mother
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Jōji Oka
Masaya Kusakabe
Ichirō Yūki
Keiji Makino
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Shōzaburō Abe
Gen the Pelican
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Ken'ichi Miyajima
Secretary
Kanji Kawara
Detective
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Eijirō Fujita
Cinematographer
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Suketarō Inokai
Cinematographer
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Masao Saitō
Cinematographer