There Was a Father (1942)
Note: this print runs 87 minutes against a recorded 94 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Mitsuko Mito, Chishū Ryū, Shin Saburi
Directed by Yasujirō Ozu
There Was a Father (Japanese: 父ありき, Hepburn: Chichi Ariki) is a 1942 Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.
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