Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941) on Netflix
The Toda patriarch Shintarō dies, and his debts consume the family's property. His widow and her youngest daughter Setsuko must depend on his married children, reluctant to take them in.
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Plot summary
The Toda family gathers to celebrate the sixty-ninth birthday of its patriarch, Shintarō, and poses for a photograph outdoors. Soon afterward he dies of a heart attack. His eldest son Shin'ichirō tells the family that their father had stood guarantor for a company that has gone bankrupt, and the debts must be paid. The family sells Shintarō's properties and valuable possessions, keeping only an old house by the sea. Mrs. Toda and her youngest daughter Setsuko, who is unmarried, move in with Shin'ichirō and his wife Kazuko. The other married children are scarcely happy to accommodate them. The unmarried second son, Shōjirō, leaves Japan for Tianjin, in China.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)
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- Yasujirō Ozu, unhappy with the salary Shochiku paid him, asked studio president Shirō Kido for a raise, and Kido made the raise conditional on how Ozu's next film turned out.
- The film was Ozu's first box office hit, which he credited to its stars Shin Saburi and Mieko Takamine, both working with him for the first time, and the success won him a long-term contract with Shochiku.
- Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family was Yasujirō Ozu's first film after a three-year hiatus from filmmaking, marking the director's return to the screen.
- During filming, Yasujirō Ozu was pressured by his studio, Shochiku, into working to a tight shooting schedule on Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family.
