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ShinSaburi

父ありき [Chichi ariki / There Was a Father] (Yasujirō Ozu, 1942)

Mar

31

a father

父ありき (1942)

Father and son fishing in a creek. DP: Yūharu Atsuta.

A father for OP's father's birthday.

 

A father, and proud teacher, raises his son alone. When the boy is an adult and a teacher himself, the elder's traditional concept of societal hierarchy affirms the balance between the generations.