
Tokyo Family(2013)
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.
Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.

Yūnosuke Itō
Toyoda Yoshigurô

Yūko Mochizuki
Wife Oyuki

Ken Utsui
Policeman

Jun Tazaki

Terumi Niki
Masako

Noriko Kitazawa
Kimura Yoshiko
Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru
Yamazaki

Hiroshi Hayashi
Ikedo
Akira Nakamura
Vice principle
Eijirô Kawai
Toshie's father
Kaachan is a drama film released in 1961. Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa, it stars Yūnosuke Itō, Yūko Mochizuki, Ken Utsui. Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.
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