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A Hero of Tokyo

Directed by Hiroshi Shimizu

Drama
19351h 3m5.0

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

Mitsugu Fujii

Kanichi Nemoto

Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Haruko Nemoto

Yukichi Iwata

Yukichi Iwata

Kaichi Nemoto

Michiko Kuwano

Michiko Kuwano

Kayoko Nemoto

Kōji Mitsui

Kōji Mitsui

Hideo Nemoto

Tomio Aoki

Tomio Aoki

Kanichi as a boy

Mitsuko Ichimura

Mitsuko Ichimura

Kayoko as a girl

Jun Yokoyama

Hideo as a boy

Jun Yokoyama