Year			1942
Original title			Chichi ariki
Original lang.			Japanese
Country			Japan
Director			Yasujiro Ozu
Starring			Chishu Ryu Shuji Sano Mitsuko Mito Takeshi Sakamoto Shin Saburi Chishu Ryu Shuji Sano Mitsuko Mito Takeshi Sakamoto Shin Saburi

Made at the height of World War II, There Was a Father is one of Ozu's most admired and affecting works. Ozu favourite Chishu Ryu plays a self-sacrificing widowed schoolteacher who experiences all the joy, pain and pride of parenthood as his beloved young son grows up, leaves home for school, and enters adulthood.