Morning's Tree-Lined Street

Drama · 1936

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....

Starring

Takeo Kita, Sachiko Chiba, Heihachirō Ōkawa, Mikio Naruse, Heihachirô Ôkawa, Ranko Akagi, Mikio Naruse, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Kôichi Iwashita, Satoko Date, Hiroshi Suzuki

Director

Mikio Naruse