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The Only Son
The Only Son
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THE ONLY SON

一人息子 | Hitori musuko

Directed by Yasujirô Ozu
Japan, 1936
Drama

Synopsis

In 1923, in the province of Shinshu, Tsune Nonomiya, a widow and simple worker in a silk factory, decides to send her only son Ryosuke Nonomiya to Tokyo for a better education. Thirteen years later, she visits her son and finds that he is a poor and frustrated night-school teacher.

Synopsis

In 1923, in the province of Shinshu, Tsune Nonomiya, a widow and simple worker in a silk factory, decides to send her only son Ryosuke Nonomiya to Tokyo for a better education. Thirteen years later, she visits her son and finds that he is a poor and frustrated night-school teacher.