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No Blood Relation

No Blood Relation • 1h 18m

Directed by Mikio Naruse • 1932 • Japan
Starring Shinyo Nara, Yukiko Tsukuba, Hisako Kojima

In NO BLOOD RELATION, a gripping early example of Mikio Naruse’s cinematic boldness, featuring a screenplay by Yasujiro Ozu’s famed collaborator Kogo Noda, an actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years before.

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