Movie: Sorrow Is Only for Women

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Kinuyo Tanaka
田中絹代

Machiko Kyō
京マチ子

Jūkichi Uno
宇野重吉

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    The beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who went to America thirty years ago to visit her grave.

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    1958-02-26

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