# Lullaby of the Earth (1976)

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**Original title**: *大地の子守歌*
**Runtime**: 111 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Yasuzō Masumura
**Written by**: Yoshio Shirasaka
**Starring**: Mieko Harada, Natsuko Kahara, Mihoko Nakagawa, Yûsuke Satô, Shigeo Katō, Eiji Okada

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Country naïf meets city slicker when a village girl loses her grandma. Out of her rural fold she’s sold into indenture then swindled by slick operators. The orphan’s quiet resilience carries Masumura’s snapshot of Seventies moral decay.

**Mood tags**: gut-punch, outsider, tender

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