The Only Son

(1936)

★ 7.4 IMDb · 123 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1936

Runtime: 87 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 小津安二郎

Cast: 飯田蝶子, 日守新一, 葉山正雄, 坪内美子, 吉川満子, 青木富夫, 笠智衆, Tomoko Naniwa, Bakudan Kozo, 高松榮子

Plot

A rural widow sends her only son to Tokyo to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him and finds he has become a night school teacher struggling to support his wife and son.

In 1923, in the province of Shinshu, the widow and simple worker of a silk factory Tsune Nonomiya (O-Tsune) decides to send her only son to Tokyo for having a better education. Thirteen years later, she visits her son Ryosuke Nonomiya (Shinichi Himori), and finds that he is a poor and frustrated night-school teacher with a wife, Sugiko (Yoshiko Tsubouchi), and a baby boy.