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    There Was a Father

    1982 · Drama · 1h 34m

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  1. There Was a Father ( Japanese: 父ありき, Hepburn: Chichi Ariki) is a 1942 Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu . Plot summary. Shuhei Horikawa ( Chishū Ryū) works as a mathematics school-teacher in a middle school. A widower, he has a ten-year-old son named Ryohei (Haruhiko Tsuda), who studies in the same school.

    • Japanese
    • Tadao Ikeda, Yasujirō Ozu, Takao Anai
  2. Jun 27, 2020 · A father and his son, a son and his father. Horikawa is a widower, a teacher, and a good father to Ryohei, who's about 10. After a tragedy, Horikawa resigns from teaching and takes Ryohei...

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  3. There Was a Father: Directed by Yasujirô Ozu. With Chishû Ryû, Shûji Sano, Shin Saburi, Takeshi Sakamoto. A schoolteacher struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, having neither money nor future prospects.

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    • Drama
    • Yasujirô Ozu
    • 1982-11
  4. Though primarily a delicately wrought story of parental love, There Was a Father offers themes of sacrifice that were deemed appropriately patriotic by Japanese censors at the time of its release during World War II, making it a uniquely political film in Ozu’s body of work.

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  5. Jan 24, 2023 · There Was a Father (Japanese: 父ありき / Chichi Ariki) is a 1942 Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. -- Synopsis -- Shuhei Horikawa (Chishū Ryū) works as a mathematics school-teacher in ...

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  7. Jan 13, 2014 · There Was a Father. By Richard Brody. January 13, 2014. This wartime drama by Yasujiro Ozu, from 1942, spanning about fifteen years in the saga of a fractured family, places private life in...

  8. A father and his son, a son and his father. Horikawa is a widower, a teacher, and a good father to Ryohei, who's about 10. After a tragedy, Horikawa resigns from teaching and takes Ryohei from Tokyo to the town of Ueno, enrolling him in junior high; to the lad's sorrow, he will be a boarder.

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