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A Hero of Tokyo (1935)

A Hero of Tokyo (1935)

Drama
Release Date: 1935, March 7
Directors: Hiroshi Shimizu
Countries: Japan
Production: Shochiku
Cast: Kōji Mitsui, Tomio Aoki, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Mitsugu Fujii, Michiko Kuwano, Jun Yokoyama, Yukichi Iwata, Mitsuko Ichimura

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.