SYNOPSIS: In No Blood Relation, a gripping early example of Mikio Naruse’s cinematic boldness, featuring a screenplay by Ozu’s famed collaborator Kogo Noda, an actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years before.
| Shunsaku Atsumi | Shinyo Nara |
| Masako, Atsumi’s wife | Yukiko Tsukuba |
| Shigeko, Atsumi’s daughter | Hisako Kojima |
| Kishiyo, Atsumi’s mother | Fumiko Katsuragi |
| Masaya Kusakabe | Joji Oka |
| Tamae Kiyooka | Yoshiko Okada |
| Keiji Makino | Ichiro Yuki |
| Gen the Pelican | Shozaburo Abe |
| Director | Mikio Naruse |
| Story by | Shunyo Yanagawa |
| Adaptation by | Kogo Noda |
| Assistant directors | Masashi Katayama, Toshihiko Nagata and Minoru Matsui |
| Cinematography | Suketaro Inokai |
| Production design | Tatsuo Hamada, Yakichi Otani, Sadaji Hokari and Matasaburo Okuno |
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