01 December 1949 Drama, Comedy 108 mins
When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in order to regain financial stability.
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Tsumasaburō Bandō as Gunpei Tsuda
Sachiko Murase as Kuniko
Masayuki Mori as Taro
Chūji Kinoshita as Heizo
Akira Ōizumi as Matasaburo
Toshiko Kobayashi as Akiko
Yōko Katsuragi as Haruko
Masayoshi Ôtsuka as Shiro
Sadako Sawamura as Yasuko
Jūkichi Uno as Shigeki Nonaka
Osamu Takizawa as Naoki
Chieko Higashiyama as Nobuko
Eitarō Ozawa as Kimura (as Sakae Ozawa)
Mitsuo Nagata as Teruo Hanada
Hiroshi Aoyama as Laundryman
Masaki Kobayashi Screenplay
Keisuke Kinoshita Story
Keisuke Kinoshita Director
Keisuke Kinoshita Screenplay
Toshio Fuwa Set Decoration
Hiroshi Kusuda Director of Photography
Masaki Kobayashi Assistant Director
Motoji Kojima Art Direction
Kōichirō Ogura Producer
Ryosuke Kurahashi Assistant Director
Hisashi Sagara Editor
Taro Takahashi Sound Recordist
Shigeo Terada Lighting Technician
Chūji Kinoshita Original Music Composer
破れ太鼓 Trailer
Yabure-daiko Trailer
Japan 01 December 1949
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I see you there your long black hair. Never forget you.
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11 November 1949
Romantic melodrama with murderous rivalries, set on a newly-cultivated wilderness plantation in Guatemala.
12 November 1949
A film's art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing. This short film walks the viewer through art directors' responsibilities and the demands on their talents.
08 October 1949
This Traveltalk series short focuses on the sights and culture that define "Old England". Included is a visit to the Cotswold Hills area, a ride on the Wye River, and visits to Tintern Abbey in Wales and Laycock Abbey in Wiltshire, England.
02 April 1949
Cowhand Drake discovers gold on the ranch of his boss, Joe Stuart and makes a deal with crooked lawyer Mel Porter to induce Stuart to sell.
19 April 1949
Jungle Jim fights a lion and sharks trying to save an African village from those who would despoil it.
02 April 1949
Charles Starrett once more dons the mask of mysterious do-gooder "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Challenge of the Range.
13 November 1949
Riders of the Dusk is another of Monogram's formula Whip Wilson westerns. Since the studio couldn't build an entire film around Wilson's bullwhip prowess, a plot was called for.
01 January 1949
A bizarre mechanic tells a traveler the story of a bank employee, Peppino Biancaneve, who with the help of a disc is trying to put together the words he would like to use to ask for the hand of the daughter of the jeweler Carlo Casertoni, but while he mulls over the sentences he should pronounce to his future father-in-law he comes across a strange individual who could be a bringer of bad luck: a jettatore.
14 March 1949
British Ministry of Health information film on the risks of poor food hygeine.
05 June 1949
Old Mike Brady built Brady Town and was a leader, but a bullet from an unknown assailant has ended his life.
01 January 1949
The plot takes place during the Civil War in Greece, and it shows the fight of communist partisans, against the pro-Western, monarchist government.
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