A Hero of Tokyo (1935)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 1935-03-07
Runtime: 63 minutes
Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
Top Cast
- Mitsugu Fujii as Kanichi Nemoto
- Mitsuko Yoshikawa as Haruko Nemoto
- Yukichi Iwata as Kaichi Nemoto
- Michiko Kuwano as Kayoko Nemoto
- Kōji Mitsui as Hideo Nemoto
- Tomio Aoki as Kanichi as a boy
- Mitsuko Ichimura as Kayoko as a girl
- Jun Yokoyama as Hideo as a boy
- Jun Yokoyama as
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