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A Hen in the Wind is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Yasujirō Ozu with Kinuyo Tanaka

A Hen in the Wind (1948)

Kaze no naka no mendori

A Hen in the Wind
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Length 1h24
Directed by
OriginJapon
Genres Drama
Rating73% 3.690283.690283.690283.690283.69028

A Hen in the Wind (風の中の牝鶏, Kaze no naka no mendori) is a 1948 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujiro Ozu, starring Kinuyo Tanaka and Shūji Sano.

Synopsis

The film is set in immediate postwar Japan, Tokyo. Tokiko (Kinuyo Tanaka), a twenty-nine-year-old mother of a young boy of four, is waiting for her husband's repatriation from World War II. In postwar Tokyo prices are escalating and the mother rents a room in a working-class industrial district, making ends meet through dressmaking. She is supported by a long-time friend and former workmate Akiko (Chieko Murata).

Actors

Kinuyo Tanaka

(Tokiko Amamiya)
Chishū Ryū

(Kazuichiro Satake)
Takeshi Sakamoto

(Hikozo Sakai)
Fumiko Okamura

(Landlady)
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