Sweat

Overview

Sweat (1929) is a slapstick riff on tendency-film themes, as a bored young millionaire has his clothes stolen by a tramp; dressed in the tramp’s clothes, he has to accept work as a labourer. As the hero ends up building the mausoleum he had himself commissioned.

Cast

Kōji Shima

Heizaemon Kitayama

Yasushi Yoshii

Genbei

Kōju Murata

Senta

Kunio Tamura

Chorotake

Etsuji Oki

Kinzo

Hisako Takihana

Oshizu

Mitsu Kanbe

Worker

Heitaro Doi

Moku Akaboshi