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In Search of Mother

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His mother abandoned him as a child, so he had no choice but to live outside society. Even so, he grows up determined to reunite with her. Worried that she might be living in misery, he saves his money to help, only to find that she has…

DirectorHiroshi Inagaki
WriterHiroshi Inagaki

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Cast · Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki

CKChiezo Kataoka
Chiezo Kataoka
Chutaro
MTMisako Tokiwa
Misako Tokiwa
Ohama
IYIsuzu Yamada
Isuzu Yamada
Otose
SAShinpachirō Asaka
Shinpachirō Asaka
Hanji
HSHaruko Sawamura
Haruko Sawamura
Otora
EY
Etsuko Yasukawa
Omura
SK
Suzuko Kasuga
Onui
MS
Michisaburō Segawa
Kingoro
WN
Waichi Narimatsu
Kihachi
HM
Hajime Morita
Shichigorō

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