TOKYO NO ONNA
Melodrama. Chikako works hard to put her younger brother through school only for him to commit suicide when his girlfriend learns from her policeman brother that she has financed his education by prostituting herself, rather than solely by working as a typist and translator as she had led him to believe.
Cast & credits
Cast
- Chikako, the sister Yoshiko Okada
- Ryoichi, Chikako's younger brother Ureo Egawa
- Harue, Ryoichi's girlfriend Kinuyo Tanaka
- Kinoshita, Harue's brother, a policeman Shinyo Nara
- reporter Chishu Ryu
Credits
Direction
- Director Yasujiro Ozu
- Assistant Director Akira Kiyosuke
- Assistant Director Kenkichi Hara
- Assistant Director Masaru Kashiwabara
- Assistant Director Hiroo Hiratsuka
Production
- Production Company Shochiku Co. Ltd.
- Studio Shochiku Kamata
Writing
- Screenplay Kogo Noda
- Screenplay Tadao Ikeda
- Based on the novel Nijuroku jikan by Ernst Schwarz
Photography
- Director of Photography Hideo Mohara
- Lighting Toshimitsu Nakajima
- Assistant Photographer Yuharu Atsuta
- Assistant Photographer Masao Irie
- Assistant Photographer Minoru Kuribayashi
Editing
- Editor Kazuo Ishikawa
Design
- Art Director Takashi Kanesu
- Set Designer Yakichi Otani
- Set Decorator Shintaro Mishima
- Set Decorator Jiro Nakamura
Costumes
- Costumes Beni Saito