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The Whole Family Works

11 Mar 1939
65 min
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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.

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Kinji Fujiwa

Ishimura's fellow worker

Kaoru Itō

Genji, second son

Den Obinata

Ogawa - the teacher

Susumu Fujita

Genji's fellow worker

Noriko Honma

Ishimura's wife

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Akira Ubukata

Kiichi, first son

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Seikichi Minami

Noboru, third son

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Seiichiro Bando

Kokichi, fifth son

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