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There Was a Father

1942 · 93 min

Quiet, patient and quietly devastating, it watches ordinary lives and small sacrifices accumulate into a lifetime of restrained feeling.

Overview
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • parenthood
  • grief
  • guilt
  • work
Places
  • small town
  • big city
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror0
Humour2
Realism9
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness4
Complexity4
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Yasujirō Ozu
Written by
Yasujirō Ozu, Takao Yanai, Tadao Ikeda
Starring
Chishū Ryū, Shūji Sano, Haruhiko Tsuda, Shin Saburi, Takeshi Sakamoto, Mitsuko Mito, Shinichi Himori, Seiji Nishimura
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
93 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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