Nippon no obaachan
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem far ahead of its time.
Release Date
January 3, 1962Runtime
94 minGenres
ComedyDirected by
Tadashi ImaiScreenplay by
Yoko MizukiLanguage
JapaneseBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
ReleasedCast
Chōchō Miyako
SatoTanie Kitabayashi
KumiChōko Iida
HanaKumeko Urabe
WakaSachiko Murase
Teruko Kishi
Chieko Higashiyama
Takahiro Tamura
Junzaburō Ban
Tatsuo Saitō
Masao Oda
Bokuzen Hidari
Zeko Nakamura
Kan Yanagiya
Taiji Tonoyama
Kichijirō Ueda
Ichirō Sugai
Yukiyo Toake
Chieko Seki
Etsuko Ichihara
Sadako Sawamura
Norihei Miki
Fumio Watanabe
Kiyoshi Atsumi
Shoichi Ozawa
Isao Kimura
Atsushi Watanabe