Burden of Life (人生のお荷物, Jinsei no onimotsu) is a 1935 Japanese comedy-drama and shōshimin-eiga film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.

[1][2][3] Elderly couple Shōzō and Tamoko have just successfully married away the third and youngest of their daughters, but get into an argument over their son Kanichi, who is still in elementary school.

Shōzō has increasing doubts about his attitude towards Kanichi, and when his son shows up at his former home, he indulges him and feeds him his favourite food.

Burden of Life was released in Japan on 10 December 1935[1][2] and reached #6 in Kinema Junpo's list of the best films of the year.

[4] For John Gillett of the British Film Institute, Burden of Life is "imbued with a naturalistic tone and ‘lived in' visual texture quite beyond American and European cinema of the time".