Wedding Day

Wedding Day

1940 · 71 min · Drama

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of their widowed father's wedding to his chosen bride, Maki Tsuneko (Sadako Sawamura), who's anxious about her conduct as the bride.

Directed by Yasujirō Shimazu · Written by Yasujirō Shimazu

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