- HD 1080
- Runtime: 93m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: ja
- Country: Japan
- Director: Yasujirō Ozu
- Stars: Chishū Ryū, Shūji Sano, Haruhiko Tsuda, Shin Saburi, Takeshi Sakamoto
- keywords: math teacher, single father, schoolteacher, textile worker, father son relationship
- Production_studio: Shochiku
- providers: Criterion Channel
- The There Was a Father is featured in the top rankings of 1942
- #16 in Top Drama Movies of 1942
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.