White Fish

White Fish (1953) blends Drama elements. Top cast includes Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara, and Hiroshi Koizumi. The narrative builds around escalating stakes, urgent decisions, and action-driven momentum.

Actor: Setsuko Hara • Genre: Drama movies

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon the wife and the son are left without an update of his status and whether he is alive or not. With the clinic lying dormant the doctor's wife rents the premises to her husband's underling. This is a man who does not accept payment from the poor. The woman, in the meantime, works at a restaurant whose owner being ill has given her additional duties. Her younger sister is an unmarried finance writer who also lives with them. It is both sisters, however, who receive marriage proposals.