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(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home (1955)

Directed by Seiji Hisamatsu

Overview

Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes the owner of “Fujimura” in the town of Hato. Eiko is a timid woman who hates Terada, a watchmaker who is obsessed with her; Tamie is a hard worker who asks for money from customers to support her mother and daughter Teruko; Tane, who dreams of the day they can be together, gives money to her lover Takeda; Machiko, an apres girl, is selective about her customers in the name of romance. They are women working in the red light district at “Fujimura.”

Length 129 minutes

Actors

Mariko Okada | Kinuyo Tanaka | Bokuzen Hidari | Hisaya Morishige | Mitsuko Mito | Keiko Awaji | Kumeko Urabe | Kamatari Fujiwara | Terumi Niki | Yôko Katsuragi | Asami Kuji | Hiroshi Tachikawa | Zeko Nakamura | Hideko Takamine