A Hero of Tokyo

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A Hero of Tokyo (1935)

Directed by Hiroshi Shimizu

Drama · 1h 03m

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.

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Cast

Mitsugu Fujii Kanichi Nemoto Mitsuko Yoshikawa Haruko Nemoto Yukichi Iwata Kaichi Nemoto Michiko Kuwano Kayoko Nemoto Kōji Mitsui Hideo Nemoto Tomio Aoki Kanichi as a boy Mitsuko Ichimura Kayoko as a girl
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Jun Yokoyama Hideo as a boy
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Jun Yokoyama

Crew

Director
Hiroshi Shimizu
Screenplay
Masao Arata
Director of Photography
Hiroshi Nomura

Details

Original title
東京の英雄
Release date
1935-03-07
Runtime
1h 03m
Genres
Drama
Original language
JA
Spoken languages
No Language
Countries
Japan
Production
Shochiku