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Sugamo's Mothers

Sugamo's Mothers

19521h 32m

Overview

Directed by Nobuo Adachi and starring Aiko Mimasu as a mother who lost three of her four sons to war. Aki is an elderly mother who has lost three of her sons to war. She is happy to be reunited with her youngest son, who has been demobilized from the South, only to find him imprisoned in Sugamo Prison as a suspected war criminal. The mother wishes only to be reunited with her son, but she falls ill from overwork and heartache...

Directed by Nobuo Adachi
Written by Fuji Yahiro
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Top Cast

Aiko Mimasu

Aiko Mimasu

Jun Negami

Jun Negami

Eiji Funakoshi

Eiji Funakoshi

Noboru Kiritachi

Noboru Kiritachi

Tomoko Matsushima

Tomoko Matsushima

About Sugamo's Mothers

Sugamo's Mothers is a war, drama film released in 1952. Directed by Nobuo Adachi, it stars Aiko Mimasu, Jun Negami, Eiji Funakoshi. Directed by Nobuo Adachi and starring Aiko Mimasu as a mother who lost three of her four sons to war. Aki is an elderly mother who has lost three of her sons to war. She is happy to be reunited with her youngest son, who has been demobilized from the South, only to find him imprisoned in Sugamo Prison as a suspected war criminal. The mother wishes only to be reunited with her son, but she falls ill from overwork and heartache...

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