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1962

Akai tsubomi to shiroi hana

Red Buds and White Flowers

赤い蕾と白い花

Release Date
June, 10th, 1962
Running Time
80 min
Genre
Feature
Color
Color
Screening Format
-
Screen Size
Cinema Scope (1:2.35)

[ Directed by ]

[ Cast ]

[ Staff ]

[ Production Company ]

NIKKATSU

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

NIKKATSU

[ Story ]

Miwa Shigeo and Iwase Tomiko are classmates and inseparable friends. Shigeo's father, a doctor, is a widower, while Tomiko's mother, the principal of a dressmaking school, is a widow.
They long for their parents to become good friends like themselves and scheme to bring them together. Fate seems to be on their side, for Tomiko's mother becomes ill and calls in Shigeo's father to attend her.
Shigeo is delighted with the turn of events, but Tomiko becomes moody. She is not aware that it is her subconscious desire to have her mother all to herself.
For her it is unbearable when a student takes a picture of Shigeo's father carrying her mother when she sprains her ankle.
Tomiko decides to leave home and Shigeo agrees to go along to protect her. A little explanation, however, clears things up and all is well.

【Quoted from the database of Nikkatsu Corporation】
【Quoted from Unijapan Film Quarterly 1962.5.4】

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