A Hero of Tokyo (1935)
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.
Cast
Mitsugu Fujii
Kanichi Nemoto
Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Haruko Nemoto
Yukichi Iwata
Kaichi Nemoto
Michiko Kuwano
Kayoko Nemoto
Kōji Mitsui
Hideo Nemoto
Tomio Aoki
Kanichi as a boy
Mitsuko Ichimura
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