Movie: The Mother Tree

Top 10 Billed Cast

Katsuko Wakasugi
若杉嘉津子

Kise Hishikawa

Akira Nakamura
中村彰

Shigenobu Hishikawa

Asao Matsumoto
松本朝生

Namihei Isogai

Hiroshi Ayukawa
鮎川浩

Takeroku

Keiko Hasegawa
Keiko Hasegawa

Sōzaburō Kikuchi
菊地双三郎

Akiko Yamashita
山下晶子

Hiroshi Hayashi
林寛

Kyōji Kokonoe
九重京司

Baku Mizuhara
Baku Mizuhara

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    A painter leaves his family to paint the homes of his rich clients. A lonely, ruthless samurai falls in love with the painter's wife and rapes her. He later murders the painter and his servants. From the afterlife, the painter's ghost seeks revenge on the samurai, and saves his wife and newborn child.

  • Release Date

    1958-07-13

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    5

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    2.5 starts
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    日本語

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