There Was a Father

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

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Yasujirō Ozu directed There Was a Father in 1942. See Yasujirō Ozu's full filmography, where to start with Yasujirō Ozu, or where to go after you've seen everything by Yasujirō Ozu.

There Was a Father was released in 1942 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 93 minutes.