
Film
Daughter of Time
1980 · 1h 26m · Drama
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Overview
A member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman giving birth in a graveyard in the former Yoshiwara district. He takes her to an inn to gove birth, and stays on a few days as she recovers, but becomes fascinated with the strange people he meets there, particularly the owner, who visits a house in his courtyard every day to talk and give food to his mother. He says she is very sick and can't leave bed, but no one else has ever been inside or seen her.
Cast
Kisako Makishi
Aya Takehisa

Motomi Makiguchi
Fireworks Hand 1

Taiji Tonoyama
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Chiyomi Fujii
Sutekichi Kiyokawa

Mariko Kaga
Ai Suwa
Hikaru Hashimizu
Eiji

Tatsuo Umemiya
Sotaro
Crew
- Makoto NaitoScreenplay · Director
- Mamoru SasakiScreenplay
- Genjiro AratoProducer
- Shiro SuzukiDirector of Photography
- Junkichi SuganoEditor
Details
- Release date
- December 20, 1980
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Drama
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