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Mother Never Dies

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Original title

Haha wa shinazu (Mother Never Dies)

Year

1942

Running time

104 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Mikio Naruse

Screenwriter

Katsuhito Inomata. Novel: Sensuke Kawauchi

Cast

Music

Tadashi Hattori

Cinematography

Seiichi Kizuka (B&W)

Producer

Toho

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

The story begins in 1929 with Sugai ((Sugai Ichiro) losing his job in the stock- market crash. He works his way up, over the course of the narrative, from mirror-cleaner in a barber shop, to cleaning product salesman, to mechanic (he studies at night), to inventor, to company president. At this second-to-last stage, when his boss offers him money for his patent, he declines, saying that he did it for the good of the country and for his wife’s memory. He receives enough money for her gravestone but eventually is given a factory to run, and eventually a whole company.

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Mother Never Dies

1942

Mikio Naruse