Woman in the mist
Oboroyo no onna, feature film, 1936.
DIRECTED BY: Heinosuke Gosho
CAST:
Toshiko Iizuka (Teruko),
Shin Tokudaiji (Seiichi),
Chôko Iida (Otoku,
Seiichijeva majka),
Takeshi Sakamoto (Bunkichi),
Mitsuko Yoshikawa (Okiyo,
Fumikichijeva supruga)
SCRIPT:
Tadao Ikeda
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Jôji Ohara
Synopsis:
Otoku is a mother who is worried about her son Seiichi’s future. He is a student of law but is losing his interest in school, so the mother asks her brother, Bunkichi, who is married but has no children, to speak to his nephew. That is how Bunkichi finds out that the young man is secretly seeing a pregnant girl. Wanting to save his nephew’s promising future, Bunkichi takes responsibility for the unborn child.
35 mm, b/w, 111 min