Synopsis
Adopted from a prize-winning school essay on the subject of 'My Mother,' upon being widowed a mother with a little help from her elder daughter has to run the family laundry on her own. The second daughter, however, has to be sent to live with relatives as the mother cannot afford her.
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Cast
Kinuyo Tanaka as Masako Fukuhara
Kyōko Kagawa as Toshiko Fukuhara
Eiji Okada as Shinjiro Hirai
Akihiko Katayama as Susumu Fukuhara
Daisuke Katō as Sokichi Kimura
