Sachiko Chiba
Chiyo
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....
Release Date | 1936-11-01 |
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Runtime | 60m |
Directors | Mikio Naruse, Hiroshi Suzuki, Noboru Itô |
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Writer | Mikio Naruse |