My Sons

1991 Japanese film

Rentarō Mikuni
Masatoshi Nagase
Emi Wakui

CinematographyTetsuo TakabaEdited byIwao IshiiMusic byTeizo MatsumuraDistributed byShochiku

Release date

October 12, 1991 (1991-10-12)

Running time

121 min.CountryJapanLanguageJapanese

My Sons (息子, Musuko) 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

References

^ Infobox data from 息子 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-05-12. and Musuko (1991) at IMDb
^ "Awards for Musuko (1991)" (in Japanese). Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
^ Based on Musuko at AllMovie
^ 第15回日本アカデミー賞 (in Japanese). Japan Academy Prize. Archived from the original on December 21, 2008. Retrieved 9 February 2009.
^ 報知映画賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Retrieved 2010-01-07.

External links

Musuko (1991) at IMDb
Musuko at AllMovie
息子 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
"MUSUKO". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
息子(1991) (in Japanese). www.walkerplus.com. Retrieved 2009-05-12. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
息子(1991) (in Japanese). allcinema.net. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
息子(1991) (in Japanese). Variety Japan. Retrieved 2009-05-12.

Films directed by Yoji Yamada

Kiri no Hata (1965)
Kyū-chan no Dekkai Yume (1967)
Otoko wa Tsurai yo (1969–1995)
Where Spring Comes Late (1970)
Home from the Sea (1972)
The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)
A Distant Cry from Spring (1980)
Tora-san's Forbidden Love (1984)
Hope and Pain (1988)
My Sons (1991)
A Class to Remember (1993)
Gakko II (1996)
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
The Hidden Blade (2004)
Love and Honor (2006)
Kabei: Our Mother (2008)
Otōto (2010)
Tokyo Family (2013)
The Little House (2014)
Nagasaki: Memories of My Son (2015)
What a Wonderful Family! (2016)
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here (2019)

Awards

Hochi Film Award for Best Film

The Inugamis (1976)
The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)
Third Base (1978)
Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko (1979)
Kagemusha (1980)
Enrai (1981)
Fall Guy (1982)
The Family Game (1983)
The Funeral (1984)
And Then (1985)
Comic Magazine (1986)
A Taxing Woman (1987)
Tomorrow (1988)
Untamagiru (1989)
Sakura no Sono (1990)
My Sons (1991)
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992)
All Under the Moon (1993)
A Dedicated Life (1994)
A Last Note (1995)
Shall We Dance? (1996)
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997)
Hana-bi (1998)
Spellbound (1999)
Face (2000)
Go (2001)
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Doing Time (2003)
Nobody Knows (2004)
Always Sanchōme no Yūhi (2005)
Hula Girls (2006)
I Just Didn't Do It (2007)
Departures (2008)
The Unbroken (2009)
Villain (2010)
Rebirth (2011)
Key of Life (2012)
The Great Passage (2013)
0.5 mm (2014)
Solomon's Perjury (2015)
Her Love Boils Bathwater (2016)
Wilderness (2017)
The Blood of Wolves (2018)
Listen to the Universe (2019)
The Voice of Sin (2020)
In the Wake (2021)
A Man (2022)
The Moon (2023)

v t e Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film
1927–1940	Ashi ni sawatta onna (1927) A Diary of Chuji's Travels (1928) Jobless Samurai (1929) Beheading Place (1930) What Made Her Do It? (1931) The Neighbor's Wife and Mine (1932) I Was Born, But... (1933) Passing Fancy (1934) A Story of Floating Weeds (1935) Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1936) Sisters of the Gion (1937) Limitless Advance (1938) Five Scouts (1939) Earth (1940)
1941–1960	Kojima no haru (1941) The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1942) The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malay (1943) Morning for the Osone Family (1947) A Ball at the Anjo House (1948) Drunken Angel (1949) Late Spring (1950) Until We Meet Again (1951) Early Summer (1952) Ikiru (1953) An Inlet of Muddy Water (1954) Twenty-Four Eyes (1955) Floating Clouds (1956) Darkness at Noon (1957) The Rice People (1958) The Ballad of Narayama (1959) Kiku to Isamu (1960)
1961–1980	Her Brother (1961) Bad Boys (1962) Being Two Isn't Easy (1963) The Insect Woman (1964) Woman in the Dunes (1965) Red Beard (1966) The Great White Tower (1967) Samurai Rebellion (1968) The Profound Desire of the Gods (1969) Double Suicide (1970) Where Spring Comes Late (1971) The Ceremony (1972) The Long Darkness (1973) Tsugaru Folk Song (1974) Sandakan No. 8 (1975) Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1976) The Youth Killer (1977) The Yellow Handkerchief (1978) Third Base (1979) Vengeance Is Mine (1980)
1981–2000	Zigeunerweisen (1981) Muddy River (1982) Fall Guy (1983) The Family Game (1984) The Funeral (1985) And Then (1986) The Sea and Poison (1987) A Taxing Woman (1988) My Neighbor Totoro (1989) Black Rain (1990) The Cherry Orchard (1991) My Sons (1992) Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1993) All Under the Moon (1994) A Dedicated Life (1995) A Last Note (1996) Shall We Dance? (1997) The Eel (1998) Fireworks (1998) Wait and See (2000)
2001–present	Face (2001) Go (2002) The Twilight Samurai (2003) A Boy's Summer in 1945 (2004) Nobody Knows (2005) Break Through! (2006) Hula Girls (2007) I Just Didn't Do It (2008) Departures (2009) Dear Doctor (2010) Villain (2011) Postcard (2012) Our Homeland (2013) Pecoross' Mother and Her Days (2014) The Light Shines Only There (2015) Three Stories of Love (2016) In This Corner of the World (2017) The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue (2018) Shoplifters (2019) It Feels So Good (2020) Wife of a Spy (2021) Drive My Car (2022) Small, Slow But Steady (2023) Okiku and the World (2024)

Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Film

The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)
The Incident (1978)
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
Zigeunerweisen (1980)
Station (1981)
Fall Guy (1982)
The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
The Funeral (1984)
Gray Sunset (1985)
House on Fire (1986)
A Taxing Woman (1987)
The Silk Road (1988)
Black Rain (1989)
Childhood Days (1990)
My Sons (1991)
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992)
A Class to Remember (1993)
Crest of Betrayal (1994)
A Last Note (1995)
Shall We Dance? (1996)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Begging for Love (1998)
Poppoya (1999)
After the Rain (2000)
Spirited Away (2001)
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
When the Last Sword Is Drawn (2003)
Half a Confession (2004)
Always Sanchōme no Yūhi (2005)
Hula Girls (2006)
Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)
Departures (2008)
Shizumanu Taiyō (2009)
Confessions (2010)
Rebirth (2011)
The Kirishima Thing (2012)
The Great Passage (2013)
The Eternal Zero (2014)
Our Little Sister (2015)
Shin Godzilla (2016)
The Third Murder (2017)
Shoplifters (2018)
The Journalist (2019)
Midnight Swan (2020)
Drive My Car (2021)
A Man (2022)
Godzilla Minus One (2023)

v t e Mainichi Film Award for Best Film
1946–1960	Aru yo no Tonosama (1946) Ima Hitotabi no (1947) Drunken Angel (1948) Late Spring (1949) Until We Meet Again (1950) Repast (1951) Ikiru (1952) An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953) Twenty-Four Eyes (1954) Floating Clouds (1955) Mahiru no ankoku (1956) The Rice People (1957) The Ballad of Narayama (1958) Kiku to Isamu (1959) Her Brother (1960)
1961–1980	A Soldier's Prayer (1961) Harakiri (1962) High and Low (1963) Woman in the Dunes (1964) Red Beard (1965) Shiroi Kyotō (1966) Samurai Rebellion (1967) The Profound Desire of the Gods (1968) Double Suicide (1969) Where Spring Comes Late (1970) Silence (1971) The Long Darkness (1972) Tsugaru Folk Song (1973) Castle of Sand (1974) The Fossil (1975) Fumō Chitai (1976) The Yellow Handkerchief (1977) The Incident (1978) Nomugi Pass (1979) Kagemusha (1980)
1981–2000	Muddy River (1981) Fall Guy (1982) Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) W's Tragedy (1984) Ran (1985) The Sea and Poison (1986) A Taxing Woman (1987) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Black Rain (1989) Childhood Days (1990) My Sons (1991) Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992) All Under the Moon (1993) A Dedicated Life (1994) A Last Note (1995) Shall We Dance? (1996) Princess Mononoke (1997) Begging for Love (1998) Poppoya (1999) Face (2000)
2001–2020	Spirited Away (2001) The Twilight Samurai (2002) Akame 48 Waterfalls (2003) Blood and Bones (2004) Break Through! (2005) Sway (2006) I Just Didn't Do It (2007) Departures (2008) The Unbroken (2009) Villain (2010) Postcard (2011) A Terminal Trust (2012) The Great Passage (2013) My Man (2014) Three Stories of Love (2015) Shin Godzilla (2016) Hanagatami (2017) Shoplifters (2018) Listen to the Universe (2019) Mother (2020)
2021–present	Drive My Car (2021) Small, Slow But Steady (2022) Okiku and the World (2023)