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Chichi ariki (1942)
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November 1982 (USA)
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Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects. | add synopsis
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Unusual Ozu film
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(Credited cast) | Chishû Ryû | ... | Shuhei Horikawa |
| Shûji Sano | ... | Ryohei |
| Shin Saburi | ... | Yasutaro Kurokawa |
| Takeshi Sakamoto | ... | Makoto Hirata |
| Mitsuko Mito | ... | Fumi |
| Masayoshi Otsuka | ... | Seichi |
| Shinichi Himori | ... | Minoru Uchida |
| Haruhiko Tsuda | ... | Ryohei as a child |
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| Kanji Kawara | ... | Teacher of junior high school |
| Yûsuke Kurata | ... | Teacher of junior high school |
| Tsuneo Osugi | ||
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There Was a Father
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USA:94 min | Japan:94 min
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Referenced in Ikite wa mita keredo - Ozu Yasujirô den (1983)
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Most of the films of Yasujiro Ozu take a very restricted time period: a few days at the most. "There Was a Father" is unusual in that the time span is actually quite long: it stretches over a number of years (this is also the case with "The Only Son"), as it chronicles the relationship of a widower with his son. The father, a schoolteacher (played by Chishu Ryu), struggles to make sure that his son has advantages that he never had; in this case, the son is appreciative of all that the father has done, and the relationship is one of the most heartwarming of all familial relationships in Ozu's work. "There Was a Father" represents one of the most beautiful depictions of a good parent in all of world cinema.