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Image of a Mother (1959)
Directed by Hiroshi Shimizu
Overview
The final film in Shimizu’s thirty-plus year career, Image of a Mother remains true to Shimizu’s central themes as a young boy must learn to form a relationship with his new stepmother. A rare scope feature from Shimizu, his final work forms a fitting farewell to a career so devoted to the lives of the misunderstood.
Length 89 minutes
Actors
Chikage Awashima | Jun Negami | Chieko Murata | Bontarô Miake | Satoko Minami | Tamae Kiyokawa | Nobuo Minamitaka | Tatsuo Hanabu | Yosuke Irie | Tsutomu Nakata | Kan Takami | Kenji Oyama