Son (1960)★ 6.7/10
- Comedy
- Drama
Directed by: Kon Ichikawa
Written by: Kon Ichikawa, Natto Wada, Toyoko Yamasaki
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is thrown out of the house for producing a son. Driven to a life of dissipation - his mistresses also fail to produce daughters - in the end he is just too tired to care. The film presages Ichikawa's The Makioka Sisters in its World War II nostalgia and visual sophistication.
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Raizô IchikawaKikuji
Tamao NakamuraHiroko
Mitsuko KusabueIkako
Machiko KyôOfuku
Ayako WakaoPontaFubuki KoshijiHisako
Kikue MôriKino
Isuzu YamadaSei
Eiji FunakoshiKiheiShigenori HayashiPonta's son TaroMayumi KurataOji
Tanie KitabayashiMaki Uchida
Ichirô SugaiFactory owner Doai
Mantarô UshioIchizo Takano
Ganjirô NakamuraHarudango
Ikuko MôriGeisha 1Kimiko TachibanaKimika
Jun HamamuraMilitary police officerSan'emon ArashiWasuke
Saburô DateHidesukeHiroshi UedaIkuro's foster parentsYasuhiko ShimaSanoyaSentarô GodaiKujiroKin'ya IchikawaTaro's foster parents (father)
Kanae KobayashiTaro's foster parents (mother)Keiko KoyanagiNurse 1Nobuko TaneiGeisha 2Kazuko TaniguchiGeisha 3Iko SatonakaGeisha 4Machiko YamaguchiNurse 2Asako TakaharaNurse 3Kyôko HigashiyamaNurse 4