I Yearn for Father

Name: I Yearn for Father
Genre: Drama
Released: 1951-03-08
Duration: 1 h 7 min
Cast: Masao Wakahara, Hibari Misora, Kuniko Miyake, Ryuji Kita, Mutsuko Sakura

1951, Japanese. Directed by Shunkai Mizuho.

Yuji Makita (Wakahara) came to a hot spring port town as a singer who plays the guitar. Thirteen years ago, Sanae Shimura (Miyake) was in love with him, and now Sanae works at a bar in Tokyo to support her daughter Emiko (Misorah) and elderly father Daiseki (Ryuji Kita). While waiting for her mother to return, Emiko often goes to the dock and sings a song. Yuji finds out that Emiko is his own daughter, because the song she sings was once written by Yuji himself and was known only to Sanae...

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Runtime: 1h 7m
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Language: Japanese
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Released: 8 March 1951
Original title: 父恋し
Country: Japan
Written by: Kihan Nagase

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I Yearn for Father (1951) was directed by Shunkai Mizuho and stars Masao Wakahara, Hibari Misora, Kuniko Miyake.