My Sons Explained

My Sons
Director:	Yōji Yamada^[1]
Producer:	Nobuyoshi Ōtani
Screenplay:	Yôji Yamada Yoshitaka Asama
Music:	Teizo Matsumura
Cinematography:	Tetsuo Takaba
Editing:	Iwao Ishii
Distributor:	Shochiku
Runtime:	121 min.
Country:	Japan
Language:	Japanese

is a 1991 Japanese film directed by Yōji Yamada. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.^[2]

Synopsis

The children of old-fashioned patriarch of a family in Iwate Province gather to observe the first anniversary of their mother's death. Tetsuya, working as a bartender in Tokyo, quarrels with his father over the way he is leading his life.^[3]

Cast

• Rentarō Mikuni: Akio Asano
• Masatoshi Nagase: Tetsuo
• Emi Wakui: Seiko Kawashima
• Miyoko Asada: Toshiko
• Kazuyo Asari: Ayako
• Mieko Harada: Reiko
• Chosuke Ikariya : Jirō Katō
• Leonard Kuma
• Tatsuo Matsumura: Terao
• Ken Nakamoto
• Meiko Nakamura
• Tomoko Naraoka
• Ichirō Ogura
• Mikiko Otonashi
• B-saku Satoh
• Casey Takamine
• Kunie Tanaka
• Ryuzo Tanaka: Tadashi

Reception

Awards and nominations

15th Japan Academy Prize^[4]

• Won: Best Picture
• Won: Best Actor - Rentarō Mikuni
• Won: Best Supporting Actor - Masatoshi Nagase
• Won: Best Supporting Actress - Emi Wakui
• Won: Rookie of the Year - Masatoshi Nagase and Emi Wakui
• Nominated: Best Director - Yoji Yamada
• Nominated: Best Screenplay - Yoji Yamada and Yoshitaka Asama
• Nominated: Best Music - Teizo Matsumura
• Nominated: Best Cinematography - Tetsuo Takaba
• Nominated: Best Lighting Direction - Yoshifumi Aoki
• Nominated: Best Art Direction - Mitsuo Degawa
• Nominated: Best Sound Recording - Isao Suzuki and Ryuji Matsumoto
• Nominated: Best Film Editing - Iwao Ishii

16th Hochi Film Award^[5]

• Won: Best Film
• Won: Best Actor - Masatoshi Nagase

External links

• • • Web site: http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1991/do002240.htm. ja:息子. 2009-05-12. ja. Japanese Movie Database.
• Web site: MUSUKO. 2009-05-12. Complete Index to World Film.
• Web site: http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/kinejun/index.cgi?ctl=each&id=26751. ja:息子(1991). 2009-05-12. www.walkerplus.com. ja.
• Web site: http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=90378. ja:息子(1991). 2009-05-08. allcinema.net. ja.
• Web site: http://search.varietyjapan.com/moviedb/cinema_26751.html. ja:息子(1991). 2009-05-12. Variety Japan. ja.

Notes and References

1. Infobox data from Web site: http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1991/do002240.htm. ja:息子. 2009-05-12. ja. Japanese Movie Database. and
2. Web site: Awards for Musuko (1991). 2009-05-05. ja. Internet Movie Database.
3. Based on
4. Web site: http://www.japan-academy-prize.jp/allprizes/1992/index.html . ja:第15回 日本アカデミー賞 . 9 February 2009 . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081221063203/http://www.japan-academy-prize.jp/allprizes/1992/index.html . December 21, 2008 . ja.
5. Web site: http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/h_award/1991/ . ja:報知映画賞ヒストリー . 2010-01-07. ja. Cinema Hochi.