Movie: The Foster Mother

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Hibari Misora
美空ひばり

Chikage Awashima
淡島千景

Yoshiko Tsubouchi
坪内美子

Nijiko Kiyokawa
清川虹子

Yoshio Tabata
田端義夫

Shinichi Himori
日守新一

Junzaburō Ban
伴淳三郎

Yūko Mochizuki
望月優子

Takeshi Sakamoto
坂本武

Sadako Sawamura
沢村貞子

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    A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her foster parents and ends up with her mother in Kyoto, who divorced her father, but her father in Tokyo, who has another family, takes her to himself out of guilt for breaking up with her. How does the daughter feel?

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