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Director
  
Mikio Naruse

Genre
  
Drama

Language
  
Japanese

7.6/10
IMDb

Music director
  
Ichiro Saito

Duration
  

Country
  
Japan

Older Brother, Younger Sister movie poster

Writer
  
Saisei Muro
,
Yoko Mizuki

Release date
  
19 August 1953 (1953-08-19) (Japan)

Cast
  
Machiko Kyô
(Mon),
Masayuki Mori
(Inokichi),
Yoshiko Kuga
(San),
Yuji Hori
(Taiichi),
Eiji Funakoshi
(Kobata),
Reizaburô Yamamoto
(Akaza - the Father)

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Older Brother, Younger Sister (あにいもうと, Ani Imōto) is a 1953 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Mikio Naruse. The film is based on the short story "Ani imôto" (Brother and Sister) by Saisei Murō. The story has been translated into English by Edward Seidensticker and is available in the anthology "Modern Japanese Stories".

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Plot

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon (Machiko Kyō) returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata (Eiji Funakoshi), which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San (Yoshiko Kuga), in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi (Masayuki Mori), decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.

Cast

  • Machiko Kyō as Mon
  • Masayuki Mori as Inokichi
  • Yoshiko Kuga as San
  • Eiji Funakoshi as Kobata
  • Kumeko Urabe as Riki
  • Reizaburô Yamamoto as Akaza

    • Reception

    Keith Uhlich of Slant gave the film 3.5/4 stars.

    References

    Older Brother, Younger Sister Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Older Brother, Younger Sister IMDb Older Brother, Younger Sister themoviedb.org