There Was a Father (1942)
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
Top billed cast
Chishū RyūShuhei Horikawa
Shūji SanoRyohei Horikawa
Haruhiko TsudaYoung Ryohei
Shin SaburiYasutaro Kurokawa
Takeshi SakamotoMakoto Hirata
Mitsuko MitoFumi
Shinichi HimoriMinoru Uchida
Seiji NishimuraPriest
Reikō TaniTeacher of Chinese Literature
Kanji KawaraTeacher of Junior High School
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