Morning's Tree-Lined Street (1936)

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....

• Release Date: 1936-11-01
• Runtime: 1h 0min
• Production Company: P.C.L. Eiga Seisaku-jo
• Production Country: Japan
• Director: Mikio Naruse