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Flunky, Work Hard!

6.8193129mMovieComedyDrama

A short concerning an impoverished insurance salesman and his scrappy son, whose fisticuffs with the other boys of their village put his father’s livelihood in jeopardy.

DirectorMikio Naruse
WriterMikio Naruse

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Cast · Directed by Mikio Naruse

IYIsamu Yamaguchi
Isamu Yamaguchi
Okabe
SK
Seiichi Katô
TSTokio Seki
Tokio Seki
Nakamura
TNTomoko Naniwa
Tomoko Naniwa
Okabe's wife
HSHideo Sugawara
Hideo Sugawara
SA
Shizue Akiyama
Toda's wife

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