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The Whole Family Works (1939)
Directed by Mikio Naruse
Drama · 1h 05m
A large family scrapes by on the meager salaries of the father and three eldest sons, who left school in order to work and support the family. The fourth eldest is soon to graduate and follow in their footsteps, though he'd rather continue schooling. The eldest finally decides to break free and set out on his own against his parents' wishes, with the support and sympathy of his siblings.
Cast
Musei Tokugawa
Ishimura
Noriko Honma
Ishimura's wife
A
Akira Ubukata
Kiichi, first son
K
Kaoru Itō
Genji, second son
S
Seikichi Minami
Noboru, third son
T
Takeshi Hirata
Eisaku, fourth son
S
Seiichiro Bando
Kokichi, fifth son
K
Kiyoko Wakaba
Hide, first daughter
Den Obinata
Ogawa - the teacher
S
Sumie Tsubaki
Mitsuko
J
Jun Maki
Kiichi's goroup leader
K
Kinji Fujiwa
Ishimura's fellow worker
Crew
- Director
- Mikio Naruse
- Screenplay
- Mikio Naruse
- Director of Photography
- Hiroshi Suzuki
- Editor
- Kôichi Iwashita
- Producer
- Masanobu Takeyama
Details
- Original title
- はたらく一家
- Release date
- 1939-03-11
- Runtime
- 1h 05m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Toho Eiga