Film

I Yearn for Father

1951 · 1h 7m · Drama

Yuji Makita (Wakahara) came to a hot spring port town as a singer who plays the guitar. Thirteen years ago, Sanae Shimura (Miyake) was in love with him, and now Sanae works at a bar in Tokyo to support her daughter Emiko (Misorah) and elderly father Daiseki (Ryuji Kita). While waiting for her mother to return, Emiko often goes to the dock and sings a song. Yuji finds out that Emiko is his own daughter, because the song she sings was once written by Yuji himself and was known only to Sanae...

Masao Wakahara

Hibari Misora

Kuniko Miyake

Ryuji Kita

Mutsuko Sakura

Ichirō Shimizu

Chiyoko Fumiya

Kentaro Taki

Akira Takaya

• Shunkai MizuhoDirector
• Kihan NagaseScreenplay

Release date

March 8, 1951

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 7m

Rated

G

Genres

Drama