Record of a Tenement Gentleman
1947·Japan·72 min.
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In post-war Japan, a man brings a lost boy to his tenement. No one wants to take the child for even one night; finally, a sour widow, Tané, does. The next day, complaining, she takes the boy to his neighborhood and finds his father has gone to Tokyo; it seems the boy has been abandoned. Tané wants to leave him there, but he follows her home.
DirectorYasujirō Ozu
MusicIchiro Saitô
CinematographyYuuharu Atsuta
CastChoko Iida·Hohi Aoki·Eitarô Ozawa·Mitsuko Yoshikawa·Reikichi Kawamura·Hideko Mimura·Chishu Ryu·Takeshi Sakamoto·Eiko Takamatsu·Taiji Tonoyama
Original titleNagaya shinshiroku