Sweat

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.

Director: Tomu Uchida

Cast: Kōji Shima, Yasushi Yoshii, Kōju Murata, Kunio Tamura, Etsuji Oki, Hisako Takihana, Mitsu Kanbe, Heitaro Doi

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