If you loved Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family, try There Was a Father

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

1941 · dir. Yasujirō Ozu

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There Was a Father

1942 · dir. Yasujirō Ozu

What they share

Both films are directed by Yasujirō Ozu, and they both carry the bittersweet, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What There Was a Father is

I Vitelloni meets Bicycle Thieves. A poor schoolteacher raises his son alone. Carries postwar Japan's quiet desperation.

If you loved Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family, try There Was a Father

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

There Was a Father

What they share

What There Was a Father is

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