The final film in Shimizu’s thirty-plus year career, Image of a Mother remains true to Shimizu’s central themes as a young boy must learn to form a relationship with his new stepmother. A rare scope feature from Shimizu, his final work forms a fitting farewell to a career so devoted to the lives of the misunderstood.
Released: Mar 04, 1959
Runtime: 89 minutes
Genre: Drama
Stars: Chikage Awashima, Jun Negami, Chieko Murata, Bontarō Miake, Satoko Minami, Tamae Kiyokawa
Crew: Kazuyoshi Takeda (Producer), Shozo Izumi (Lighting Technician), Hiroshi Shimizu (Director), Hiroshi Ishida (Director of Photography), Mikio Naka (Art Direction), Yūji Koseki (Music)