Sanae Yamamoto's 1925 legend of a son who hides his elderly mother rather than abandon her, and whose mother's wisdom later saves the land.

Public domain (US): Japanese film published 1925; all works published before 1931 (including foreign works restored under URAA) are public domain in the US (95-year term expired). Source: Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/SanaeYamamotoEnglish).

Credit: digital copy, English subtitles and title cards courtesy of the National Film Archive of Japan (NFAJ).