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Director
  
Kohei Oguri

Music director
  
Kurodo Mori

Duration
  

Language
  
Japanese

8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Screenplay
  
Takako Shigemori

Country
  
Japan

Muddy River (film) movie poster

Release date
  
January 30, 1981 (1981-01-30)

Writer
  
Teru Miyamoto (novel), Takako Shigemori

Cast
  
Takahiro Tamura
(Shinpei Itakura),
Mariko Kaga
(Shoko Matsumoto, Kiichi and Ginko's mother),
Yumiko Fujita
(Sadako Itakura, Nobuo's mother),
Gannosuke Ashiya
(Shinoda, the horse cart man),
Keizô Kani'e
(Policeman),
Taiji Tonoyama
(Man on festival boat)

Similar movies
  
MacArthurs Children (1984), Eureka (2000), The Mourning Forest (2007), Parade (2009), Cut (2011)

Muddy river 1981


Muddy River (泥の河, Doro no kawa) is a 1981 Japanese drama film directed by Kōhei Oguri. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was also entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize.

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Plot

Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends. The two families' "businesses" are in fact dining and prostitution. When Nobou, the restaurateur's son, loses his pocket money during the Tenjin Festival, Kiichi, the prostitute's boy, invites him home, and he learns the truth.

Cast

  • Takahiro Tamura as Shinpei Itakura
  • Mariko Kaga as Shoko Matsumoto, Kiichi and Ginko's mother
  • Nobutaka Asahara as Nobuo Itakura
  • Makiko Shibata as Ginko Matsumoto
  • Minoru Sakurai as Kiichi Matsumoto
  • Yumiko Fujita as Sadako Itakura, Nobuo's mother
  • Gannosuke Ashiya as Shinoda, the horse cart man

    • References

    Muddy River (film) Wikipedia
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    Muddy River (film) IMDb Muddy River (film) themoviedb.org