The Little House

The Little House

2014 · 2 hr 16 min · N/A

Drama, Romance

Directors

Yôji Yamada

Actors

  • Takako Matsu
  • Haru Kuroki
  • Isao Hashizume

Credits: 5

Summary

A woman looks back on her family's life in Tokyo before and during WWII. A maid arrives from the countryside to work for an upper middle class family. She fits in well, but everyone's emotions are stirred up with the arrival of a ...

More about this movie

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as a housemaid and nanny for the Hirai family in a little house in Tokyo with a red gabled roof.