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An Inn in Tokyo - Wikipedia

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An Inn in Tokyo

Japanese name

Kanji

東京の宿

Transcriptions
Revised Hepburn	Tōkyō no yado

Directed by

Yasujirō Ozu

Written by

(Yasujirō Ozu, Masao Arata, Tadao Ikeda)

Starring

Takeshi Sakamoto, Yoshiko Okada, Choko Iida, Kazuko Ojima

Cinematography

Hideo Mohara

Edited by

Hideo Mohara

Music by

Keizô Horiuchi

Production
company

Shochiku

Release date

November 21, 1935 (1935-11-21) (Japan)

Running time

80 minutes

Country

Japan

Languages

Silent film
Japanese intertitles

An Inn in Tokyo (東京の宿, Tōkyō no yado) is a 1935 silent film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. The film is Ozu's last extant silent film.

The screenplay is credited to Uinzato Mone or Winthat Monnet ("Without Money"). In fact, the screenplay was written by Ozu, Masao Arata and Tadao Ikeda during a period when Ozu was short on cash.

Plot

Kihachi (Takeshi Sakamoto) wanders around the industrial flatlands of Tokyo's Koto district with his two young sons, Zenko (Tokkan Kozo) and Masako (Takayuki Suematsu), looking for work. Unable to find a job, Kihachi relies on his sons to catch stray dogs for the reward money, but Zenko wastes the bounty buying himself a much-desired officer's cap. Later, the brothers quarrel and lose the family's bundle. Kihachi tells them that they no longer have enough money to pay for both a meal and a bed for the night. They choose a meal. At a cafe they meet Kihachi's old friend, Otsune (Choko Iida), who finds Kihachi a job and allows the family to rent a room at the cafe.

Kihachi meets the impoverished Otaka (Yoshiko Okada) and her young daughter, Kimiko (Kazuko Ojima). Otaka is also unable to find work. Kihachi brings Otaka and Kimiko to Otsune's cafe for a meal.

Later, Kihachi discovers that Otaka has found work as a sake-house waitress. She explains that her daughter has fallen ill and she cannot afford to pay the hospital bills. Kihachi, unable to borrow money from Otsune to pay the bills, resorts to theft and has his sons take the proceeds to Otaka.

Kihachi confides in Otsune, who scolds him for keeping his worries to himself. He leaves the boys in Otsune's care and sets off for the police station to turn himself in.^[1]