Movie
A Japanese Tragedy
1953 · 116 min
A slow, sorrowful immersion into a mother's unraveling, blending social critique with raw emotional devastation.
- Overview
- At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
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