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Morning's Tree-Lined Street (1936)

Directed by Mikio Naruse

Overview

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 of 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….

Length 60 minutes

Actors

Sachiko Chiba | Heihachirô Ôkawa | Ranko Akagi | Nijiko Kiyokawa | Satoko Date | Hatsuko Natsume | Tamae Kiyokawa | Ko Mihashi | Masao Mishima | Misao Yamaguchi