Morning's Tree-Lined Street

After some fruitless career 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 neighbourhood tavern where the women are dirt poor, each having only one kimono to their name...

Director: Mikio Naruse

Cast: Sachiko Chiba, Heihachirō Ōkawa, Ranko Akagi, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Satoko Date, Hatsuko Natsume, Tamae Kiyokawa, Kō Mihashi

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.