Nippon no obaachan

Nippon no obaachan (1962)

Comedy

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.

Director: Tadashi Imai
Writer: Yōko Mizuki

Casts

	Chōchō Miyako as Sato
	Tanie Kitabayashi as Kumi
	Chōko Iida as Hana
	Kumeko Urabe as Waka
	Izumi Hara as Hatsu
	Sachiko Murase as
	Teruko Kishi as
	Chieko Higashiyama as
	Takahiro Tamura as
	Junzaburō Ban as
	Tatsuo Saitō as
	Masao Oda as
	Bokuzen Hidari as
	Zeko Nakamura as
	Kinichi Shimizu as
	Shojiro Ogasawara as
	Reizaburo Yamamoto as
	Kan Yanagiya as
	Taiji Tonoyama as
	Kichijirō Ueda as
	Ichirō Sugai as
	Yukiyo Toake as
	Mari Saotome as
	Chieko Seki as
	Etsuko Ichihara as
	Sadako Sawamura as
	Norihei Miki as
	Fumio Watanabe as
	Kiyoshi Atsumi as
	Shoichi Ozawa as
	Isao Kimura as
	Atsushi Watanabe as

Crew