Woman in the Mist

1936 Drama Directed by Heinosuke Gosho

About Woman in the Mist

Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak to her son Seiichi. She has given the young man everything, and he is sliding into a wasted life. Bunkichi tells him to study harder. The advice may already be too late.

Cast & crew

More about Woman in the Mist

Heinosuke Gosho directed Tadao Ikeda's script. Jōji Ohara photographed it. Keizō Horiuchi wrote the music.

Themes

  • A mother who has given everything
  • An uncle sent to lecture
  • Advice that may be late
  • Otoku
  • Bunkichi
  • Seiichi
  • study
  • Heinosuke Gosho

Background

A 1936 Japanese drama by Gosho about a son who will not study.

Making

Gosho filmed Ikeda's family argument, with the mother sending her brother to correct the son.

Look

Jōji Ohara photographed the household scenes.

Music

Keizō Horiuchi wrote the score.

Preservation

A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

  • Toshiko Iizuka, Shin Tokudaiji, Takeshi Sakamoto, Chōko Iida, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, and Shin Saburi are in the cast.
  • The catalog summary stops at the warning that the uncle's talk may be too late.

Scenes

  • Bunkichi tells Seiichi to study harder, and the warning hangs over the scene.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (Woman in the Mist (1936) by Heinosuke Gosho.webm)