Mother's Melody

Overview

The prewar film Haha no kyoku (Mother's Melody, 1937) is known for its place in Japanese film history as one of the top three melodramas as well as for its authorship: Yamamoto Satsuo is an auteur not usually associated with filming melodramas. Yamamoto made the film right after he moved, along with his mentor Naruse Mikio, to the Toho film company. A number of subsequent postwar mother's films adopted some of its essences, making it a genre-defining moment in Japanese cinema. This great melodrama is atypical of Yamamoto's output, much of which deals with political corruption and inequities within social institutions and offers a strong anti-establishment appeal.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 3, 1937

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

TOHO,P.C.L. Eiga Seisaku-jo

Cast

Yōyō Kojima,Sadao Maruyama,Reiko Minakami,Osamu Takizawa,Setsuko Hara,Takako Irie,Toshiko Itō,Yuriko Hanabusa,Masao Mishima,Joji Oka

Director

Satsuo Yamamoto

Writer

Nobuko Yoshiya,Chiio Kimura,Toshio Yasumi

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt6353374