There Was a Father

There Was a Father is a 1942 Japanese film directed by Yasujir Ozu.

Shuhei enrolls his son to a junior high school in Ueno, where Ryohei studies as a boarder, and goes to work in Tokyo to finance his sons education.Years pass. The 25yearold Ryohei Shuji Sano has finished college and himself becomes a schoolteacher in Akita. Shuhei now works as a clerk in a Tokyo textile factory and the two meet occasionally. Ryohei has thoughts of quitting his teaching job to join his father at Tokyo, but Shuhei rebukes him for not doing what his duty decrees. Ryohei takes a tenday vacation to join his father in Tokyo. Together with retired headmaster Makoto Hirata Takeshi Sakamoto, Shuhei attends a gettogether with his former pupils and the group reminisce about their school days. When Shuhei returns home, he suffers a stroke and is admitted to the hospital. Asking Hiratas daughter Fumiko Mitsuko Mito to take care of his son, he dies soon after. The final scene shows Ryohei and his new wife Fumiko returning to Akita, with the urn containing his fathers ashes resting on the luggage rack the two have agreed to live together with Hirata and Fumikos younger brother. ........

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