Musume to watashi

Musume to watashi

🎞️ Movie 123 min JP
โ˜… 6.5 /10 1962

This is the story of a Japanese husband and his French wife who becomes pregnant. They move from France to Yokohama, Japan only to suffer his inability to land a job. Fortunately, there are some savings and a few possessions that can be sold for money, but poverty looms nonetheless. By the time he has a job the couple's daughter is six-years-old and the mother is suffering illness necessitating the husband taking his wife back to France leaving their daughter behind. Six months pass and, with the wife not faring much better, the man has to travel back to Japan on his own to be with his daughter.

Cast

Yuriko Hoshi
Yuriko Hoshi
Mari Iwatani (ages 16-24)
Sō Yamamura
Sō Yamamura
Shiro Iwatani
Setsuko Hara
Setsuko Hara
Chizuko Iwatani
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Nabeshima
Haruko Sugimura
Haruko Sugimura
Kiyo Kitagawa
Ken Mitsuda
Ken Mitsuda
Chizuko's father
Eitarō Ozawa
Eitarō Ozawa
Watanabe
Eijirō Tōno
Eijirō Tōno
Grandfather
Tatsuo Matsumura
Tatsuo Matsumura
Uemura
Yūsuke Takita
Yūsuke Takita
Doctor
Sei Ikeno
Sei Ikeno
Composer
Asakazu Nakai
Asakazu Nakai
Cinematographer