Morning's Tree-Lined Street (1936)

Morning's Tree-Lined Street

1936

Drama

Synopsis

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....

Credits

Director

Mikio Naruse

Cast

Hatsuko Natsume

Heihachirō Ōkawa as Ogawa

Kō Mihashi as Chiyo's father

Masao Mishima as Madame's husband

Misao Yamaguchi as Chiyo's mother

Nijiko Kiyokawa as Fusako

Ranko Akagi as Shigeyo (Hisako)

Sachiko Chiba as Chiyo