Morning's Tree-Lined Street
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....
- Year: 1936
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: P.C.L. Eiga Seisaku-jo
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- Director: Mikio Naruse
- Cast: Sachiko Chiba, Heihachirō Ōkawa, Ranko Akagi, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Satoko Date, Hatsuko Natsume
