Daughters, Wives and a Mother | |
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娘・妻・母 | |
Directed by | Mikio Naruse |
Screenplay by | |
Produced by | Sanezumi Fujimoto |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Jun Yasumoto |
Edited by | Eiji Ooi |
Music by | Ichirō Saitō |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Toho |
Release date | |
Running time | 122 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Daughters, Wives and a Mother (娘・妻・母, Musume • tsuma • haha) is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse.[2]
Sanae, a recent widow and the eldest daughter of a family, returns to her mother, eldest brother and his brother's wife. The family argues over what to do with the money Sanae's husband left her.[2]
Daughters, Wives and a Mother received a roadshow theatrical release at the Yūraku-za Theatre in Tokyo, Japan on 21 May 1960. It was the first Japanese film to play at the theatre since World War II.[3] It received a general release on 28 May 1960. The film was Toho's highest-grossing film production of 1960 and the eighth highest-grossing Japanese production of 1960. It was released in the United States with English subtitles by Toho International on December 1, 1978.[2]