No Blood Relation
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In No Blood Relation, a gripping early example of Mikio Naruse’s cinematic boldness, featuring a screenplay by Ozu’s famed collaborator Kogo Noda, an actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years before.
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Cast
- Shinyo Nara
- Shunsaku Atsumi
- Yukiko Tsukuba
- Masako, Atsumi’s wife
- Hisako Kojima
- Shigeko, Atsumi’s daughter
- Fumiko Katsuragi
- Kishiyo, Atsumi’s mother
- Joji Oka
- Masaya Kusakabe
- Yoshiko Okada
- Tamae Kiyooka
- Ichiro Yuki
- Keiji Makino
- Shozaburo Abe
- Gen the Pelican
Credits
- Director
- Mikio Naruse
- Story by
- Shunyo Yanagawa
- Adaptation by
- Kogo Noda
- Assistant directors
- Masashi Katayama
- Assistant directors
- Toshihiko Nagata
- Assistant directors
- Minoru Matsui
- Cinematography
- Suketaro Inokai
- Production design
- Tatsuo Hamada
- Production design
- Yakichi Otani
- Production design
- Sadaji Hokari
- Production design
- Matasaburo Okuno
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