Tokyo Twilight (1957) on Netflix
Akiko Sugiyama studies English shorthand in Tokyo. Her elder sister Takako has come home with her toddler daughter after leaving an unhappy marriage, and the two learn their mother is alive.
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Plot summary
Shukichi Sugiyama works at a bank in Tokyo and shares a house with his two daughters. The elder, Takako, has come home to stay after leaving an unhappy marriage, and she brings her toddler girl with her. The younger, Akiko, studies English shorthand at college. Akiko is involved with Kenji, her college boyfriend, and becomes pregnant. Searching for Kenji at a mahjong parlor, she meets Kisako, the owner, who appears to know much about the Sugiyama family. The sisters learn that the mother who left them as small children is alive in the city, and Akiko will not accept having been abandoned.
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