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With Wife, Children, and Friends

With Wife, Children, and Friends

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 1, 1961

Runtime

2h 36m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

妻あり子あり友ありて

Production Companies

Shochiku

Director

Umetsugu Inoue

Description

Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes to Tokyo in 1926 from faraway Kagoshima to join the Tokyo police force. His closest friend is Nihei, a farmer's son from Tohoku who becomes the steadying influence on headstrong Henmi.