The read
A Balasaur Score of 73 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.4/10. Streaming on Tubi.
Synopsis
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.
Ratings
IMDb7.4/10
63 audience votes
Key crew
- Kenji MizoguchiDirector
- Fumio HayasakaOriginal Music Composer
- Yoshikata YodaScreenplay
Cast
- Kinuyo TanakaOyû Kayukawa
- Nobuko OtowaShizu
- Yūji HoriShinnosuke Seribashi
- Kiyoko HiraiOsumi
- Reiko KongōOtsugi Kayukawa
- Eijirō YanagiEitaro
- Eitarō ShindōKusaemon
- Kanae KobayashiNanny
- Fumihiko YokoyamaBook-keeper
- Jun FujikawaBook-keeper
- Sōji ShibataBook-keeper
- Inosuke KuharaBoy
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Themes
japansibling relationshipdeath in childbirth