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....
Genre: Drama
Stars: Sachiko Chiba, Heihachirō Ōkawa, Ranko Akagi, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Satoko Date, Hatsuko Natsume
Crew: Mikio Naruse (Director), Mikio Naruse (Writer), Takeo Kita (Settings), Hiroshi Suzuki (Director of Photography), Jun Yamaguchi (Sound Recordist), Kôichi Iwashita (Editor)
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Studio: P.C.L. Eiga Seisaku-jo
Runtime: 60 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Nov 01, 1936
IMDb: 4.3
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