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Eclipse Series 26: Silent Naruse

715515069311 (Mar 22, 2011)

1.	Flunky, Work Hard!	1931
2.	No Blood Relation	1932
3.	Apart From You	1933
4.	Every-Night Dreams	1933
5.	Street Without End	1934

No Blood Relation

Nasanunaka

1932

6.8

520

Japan | English | Color | 01:18

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In No Blood Relation, a gripping early example of Mikio Naruse’s cinematic boldness, featuring a screenplay by 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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	Yoshiko Okada	Tamae Kiyooka
	Shin'yô Nara	Shunsaku Atsumi
	Yukiko Tsukuba	Masako / Atsumi's wife
	Toshiko Kojima	Shigeko / Atsumi's daughter
	Fumiko Katsuragi	Kishiyo / Atsumi's mother
	Joji Oka	Masaya Kusakabe
	Ichirô Yuki	Keiji Makino
	Shozaburo Abe	Gen the Pelican
	Ken'ichi Miyajima	Secretary
	Kanji Kawahara	Detective
	Kenji Oyama	Lodger
	Kikuko Hanaoka	Waitress
	Tomio Aoki	Neighbour's child
	Ryuko Fuji	Boarding house lady

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Director	Mikio Naruse
Writer	Shunyo Yanagawa, Kôgo Noda
Photography	Eijirô Fujita, Suketaro Inokai, Masao Saito

Edition details

Edition	Criterion Eclipse
Nr Discs	1
Layers	Single side, Single layer
Regions	1