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I Yearn for Father

Mar 8, 1951 · 1h 7m
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Drama

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Yuji Makita (Wakahara) came to a hot spring port town as a singer who plays the guitar. Thirteen years ago, Sanae Shimura (Miyake) was in love with him, and now Sanae works at a bar in Tokyo to support her daughter Emiko (Misorah) and elderly father Daiseki (Ryuji Kita). While waiting for her mother to return, Emiko often goes to the dock and sings a song. Yuji finds out that Emiko is his own daughter, because the song she sings was once written by Yuji himself and was known only to Sanae...

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CAST

Masao Wakahara
Hibari Misora
Kuniko Miyake
Ryuji Kita
Mutsuko Sakura
Ichirō Shimizu
Chiyoko Fumiya
Kentaro Taki
Directed by Shunkai Mizuho

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Status
Released
Original language
JA
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Production
Shochiku
Country
JP
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