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That Night’s Wife
JAPAN · 1930

That Night’s Wife

Yasujiro Ozu
parental sacrifice poverty and desperation crime and morality illness and mortality family bonds
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Synopsis

In Depression-era Japan, a man commits a robbery to save his critically ill daughter and escapes with the funds, but complications arise.

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