A Hero of Tokyo
A Hero of Tokyo, Tôkyô no eiyû
Original title: 東京の英雄
Original language: jaIMDB: tt0160992
TMDB: 321765
Release date: Thursday, 7th March 1935
Adult: No
Genres:
Drama
Duration: 1h 3min
Popularity: 0.878
Rate: 5 / 1 votes
Overview: The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife is a widow with a son and daughter of her own. However, Nemoto’s business turns out to be out a shady scam, and he disappears, leaving his wife to raise the three children alone. In order to support the family, she is obliged to become a bar hostess. She conceals this shameful employment from the children, but the truth comes out years later, after her daughter is rejected by her husband’s family when they investigate her background.
Popularity: 0.878
Rate: 5 / 1 votes
Overview: The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife is a widow with a son and daughter of her own. However, Nemoto’s business turns out to be out a shady scam, and he disappears, leaving his wife to raise the three children alone. In order to support the family, she is obliged to become a bar hostess. She conceals this shameful employment from the children, but the truth comes out years later, after her daughter is rejected by her husband’s family when they investigate her background.
Directors
Hiroshi Shimizu
(Director)
(Director)Writers
Masao Arata
(Screenplay)
(Screenplay)Cast
Mitsugu Fujii
(Kanichi Nemoto)
(Kanichi Nemoto)Mitsuko Yoshikawa
(Haruko Nemoto)
(Haruko Nemoto)Yukichi Iwata
(Kaichi Nemoto)
(Kaichi Nemoto)Michiko Kuwano
(Kayoko Nemoto)
(Kayoko Nemoto)Kōji Mitsui
(Hideo Nemoto)
(Hideo Nemoto)Tomio Aoki
(Kanichi as a boy)
(Kanichi as a boy)Mitsuko Ichimura
(Kayoko as a girl)
(Kayoko as a girl)Jun Yokoyama (Hideo as a boy)
(Hideo as a boy)Videos
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