Image of a Mother (1959)
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.
- Country : Japan
- Genre : Drama
- Studio : Daiei Film
- Director : Hiroshi Shimizu
- Cast : Chikage Awashima, Jun Negami, Chieko Murata, Bontarō Miake, Satoko Minami, Tamae Kiyokawa