Morning's Tree-Lined Street
As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus leaving the countryside and entering the metropolitan cityscape. After some fruitless job hunting in downtown Tokyo, Chiyo accepts a job as a bar hostess in Shiba ward. Well away from glamorous Asakusa and Ginza, this is a neighborhood bar where the women are dirt poor, each having only one kimono to their name....
Genre: Drama
Cast: Sachiko Chiba, Heihachirō Ōkawa, Ranko Akagi, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Satoko Date, Hatsuko Natsume, Tamae Kiyokawa, Ko Mihashi, Masao Mishima, Misao Yamaguchi
Crew: Mikio Naruse (Director), Mikio Naruse (Writer), Hiroshi Suzuki (Director of Photography), Jun Yamaguchi (Sound Recordist), Kôichi Iwashita (Editor)