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There Was a Father

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There Was a Father (1942)

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Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Chishu Ryu, Shin Saburi, Takeshi Sakamoto, Mitsuko Mito

Starring: Chishu Ryu, Shin Saburi, Takeshi Sakamoto, Mitsuko Mito

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Screenwriter: Tadao Ikeda, Yasujiro Ozu

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Ozu's most Buddhist, didactic, Japanese and patriarchal film.

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If There Was a Father celebrates obedience as a virtue and duty the highest calling on the surface, there is an ambiguity in Ozu's tone.

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