Ashita no namikimichi (1936)

Drama

As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point o view on a bus leaving the countryside and entering the metropolitan cityscape. After some fruitless job hunting in downtown Tokyo, Chiyo accepts a job as a bar hostess in Shiba ward. Well away from glamorous Asakusa and Ginza, this is a neighborhood bar where the women are dirt poor, each having only one kimono to their name....

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Runtime: 60 mins Rating: 7.0

Cast

Nijiko Kiyokawa

Fusako

Ko Mihashi

Chiyo's father

Masao Mishima

Madame's husband

Ranko Akagi

Shigeyo (Hisako)

Heihachirô Ôkawa

Ogawa

Sachiko Chiba

Chiyo

Tamae Kiyokawa

Madame at café

Misao Yamaguchi

Chiyo's mother

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Crew

Takeo Kita

Settings

Mikio Naruse

Director

Mikio Naruse

Writer

Kôichi Iwashita

Editor

Hiroshi Suzuki

Director of Photography

Noboru Itô

Music Director

Jun Yamaguchi

Sound Recordist

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