Arashi

Arashi

🎞️ Movie JP
โ˜… 8.2 /10 1956

With one of the busiest film industries in the world, Japan was able to submit several films into competition at the 1957 Berlin Film Festival. One of the best of these was Arashi, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki of Rickshaw Man fame. Anticipating Hollywood's Table for Five by nearly a quarter of a century, the film concerns the efforts by a recently widowed high-school teacher to raise his four children alone. Chihu Ryu is terrific as the central character, while Izumi Yukimura is even better as Ryu's eldest daughter. For reasons unknown, Arashi is often omitted from "official" lists of Inagaki's films.

Cast

Chishū Ryū
Chishū Ryū
Shinji Mizusawa
Kinuyo Tanaka
Kinuyo Tanaka
Otoku, housekeeper
Daisuke Katō
Daisuke Katō
Ishii
Akira Kubo
Akira Kubo
Saburo Mizusawa
Izumi Yukimura
Izumi Yukimura
Sueko Mizusawa
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Ren Yamamoto
Taro Mizusawa
Kunio Ôtsuka
Kunio Ôtsuka
Jiro Mizusawa
Gen Shimizu
Gen Shimizu
Kitagawa
Chieko Nakakita
Chieko Nakakita
Osaki, maidservant
Haruko Tôgô
Haruko Tôgô
Shizue
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Shirō Fukai
Composer
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Tadashi Iimura
Cinematographer