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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
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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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
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.
- Shuhei Horikawa
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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...
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.