JAPAN · 1937

Learn From Experience

Mikio Naruse
unwed motherhood family support female friendship social adversity redemption through compassion
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Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in adversity by close friend Michiko and her mother but also, surprisingly, Shintaro's mother and siblings. Even moreso, Toyomi and Yurie become friends. Part two of a two-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan.

Year1937
CountryJapan
DirectorMikio Naruse
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