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....

Top Billed Cast

Sachiko Chiba

Chiyo

Heihachirō Ōkawa

Ogawa

Ranko Akagi

Shigeyo (Hisako)

Nijiko Kiyokawa

Fusako

Satoko Date

Mitsuko