A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of her missing husband.
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Yasuki Chiba Director
Ryōzō Kasahara Writer
Seiya Yoshida Writer
Fumiko Hayashi Story
Rokurô Nishigaki Director of Photography
Akira Ifukube Original Music Composer
Sanezumi Fujimoto Producer
Kihachi Okamoto Assistant Director
Satoru Chûko Production Design
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Japan 29 October 1957
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11 October 1957
A heiress has to marry in order to spend her financial assets and physical possessions worth PKR seven lakh each.
20 May 1957
Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.
16 February 1957
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life.
14 February 1957
Amateur boxer turns pro, dealing meanwhile with an eventful personal life.
21 September 1957
Lalithangi is a queen who rules over her kingdom, showing the world that a woman could rule as effectively as a man.
04 April 1957
Manuel, a landowner in Jamaica, arrives in Paris on vacation. There he meets Olivia, a Spanish popular singer and falls in love.
06 July 1957
The only son of Otari’s widow decides to serve in the serf owner’s house, and falls in love with the patron’s daughter for whom he can’t reveal his feelings to.
17 December 1957
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
31 March 1957
A stagecoach is plagued by robberies, but it takes an undercover Wells Fargo agent to discover that a rival company is responsible.
01 February 1957
DEFINITELY, it's Lo' Waist Gang in their vacation for laughs, gals, love, music, dances.
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