(0 votes, average: 0.00/10)- Country: Japan
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 1942-09-24
- Director: Mikio Naruse
- Writers: Katsuhito Inomata , Sensuke Kawauchi
- Language: Japanese
- Stars: Takako Irie , Yukiko Todoroki , Ichirō Sugai , Hideo Saito , Kamatari Fujiwara , Sadako Sawamura , Susumu Fujita , Masaru Kodaka , Kaoru Itô , Jun Maki
- Runtime: 104 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Ma mère ne mourra jamais (France, French Republic) , Мама не умрёт (Russian Federation) , Mother Never Dies , Mother Never Dies (United Kingdom) , Haha wa shinazu , 母は死なず (Japan) , Mother Never Dies (United States of America)
- Plot: A rather pedestrian movie from a master director, Mother Never Dies is neither terrible, nor terribly good. The movie is about a married couple and their son and travails over a number of years. It starts just before the beginning of the Depression, when the father gets laid off from his job. While he struggles to feed the family and find another job, the son has to adjust to being in a lower income bracket. Meanwhile, the mother develops this worrying pain in her stomach... The first half of the story has a gentle optimism (despite its potentially depressing subject matter) but as the timeline of the movie approaches the Pacific War (against the Chinese "aggressors" as they're called in the movie) the movie's theme of the need to suppress individuality to become a better Japanese comes to the foreground. Not as offensive or didactic as propaganda movies can be, Mother Never Dies is ultimately just a somewhat dull family drama.
- IMDB:tt0034824
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Mikio Naruse
Director
Takako Irie
Yukiko Todoroki
Ichirō Sugai
Kamatari Fujiwara
Sadako Sawamura
Susumu Fujita
Masaru Kodaka
Kaoru Itô
Jun Maki
Yônosuke Toba
Eitarō Shindō
Masao Shimizu
Kenzô Asada
Hyo Kitazawa
Yôyô Kojima
Kinji Fujiwa
Taizō Fukami
Kan Yanagiya
Ichirō Ryūzaki
Kunio Mita
Yô Kinoshita
Ichirô Tetsu
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