Flunky, Work Hard
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Mikio Naruse’s earliest available film, Flunky, Work Hard is the rare work by the director not to center around female characters. It is a charming, breezy short concerning an impoverished insurance salesman and his scrappy son, whose fisticuffs with the other boys of their village put his father’s livelihood in jeopardy.
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Cast
- Isamu Yamaguchi
- Okabe
- Tomoko Naniwa
- Okabe’s wife
- Seiichi Kato
- Susumu, Okabe’s son
- Shizue Akiyama
- Toda’s wife
- Hideo Sugawara
- Toda’s child
- Tokio Seki
- Nakamura
Credits
- Director
- Mikio Naruse
- Written by
- Mikio Naruse
- Cinematography
- Mitsuo Miura
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