I Yearn for Father

Overview

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...

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 8, 1951

Original language

Japanese

Production

Shochiku

Cast

Ichirō Shimizu,Hibari Misora,Kentaro Taki,Mutsuko Sakura,Masao Wakahara,Akira Takaya,Kuniko Miyake,Ryuji Kita,Chiyoko Fumiya

Director

Shunkai Mizuho

Writer

Kihan Nagase

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt8958904