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Hataraku Ikka (1939)
The Whole Family Works, Mikio Naruse's adaptation of a Sunao Tokunaga novel, feels more of a piece with the writer/director's quietly observant and psychologically charged later work. For the Naruse-familiar, it is an anomaly only in its placement within his filmography—indeed, this could be a film made by the elder, stasis-minded Naruse momentarily inhabiting, through a metaphysical twist of fate, his stylistically exuberant younger self. Set in depression-era Japan around the time of the Sino-Japanese War (which the director evokes, during a brief dream sequence, by dissolving between children's war games and actual adult warfare), The Whole Family Works gently observes a family coming apart at the seams. Ishimura (Musei Tokugawa) is the jobless father of nine children.
Updated May 25 2020
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Cast
Susumu Fujita
Genji's fellow worker
Den Ohinata
Ogawa - the teacher
Kinji Fujiwa
Ishimura's fellow worker
Kaoru Itô
Genji, second son
Akira Ubukata
Kiichi, first son
Musei Tokugawa
Ishimura
Jun Maki
Kiichi's goroup leader
Crew
Mikio Naruse
Director
Mikio Naruse
Screenplay
Kôichi Iwashita
Editor
Hiroshi Suzuki
Director of Photography
Takashi Matsuyama
Set Decoration
Hisashi Shimonaga
Sound Recordist
Hiroaki Ôiwa
Production Manager
Kuichirô Kishida
Lighting Technician
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