An Inn in Tokyo (東京の宿, Tokyo no yado) is a 1935 silent film directed by Yasujiro Ozu. The film is Ozu's last extant silent film.
The script of the film is credited to a person by the name of Uinzato Mone, which means in Japanese, "Without Money". In fact the screenplay was written by Ozu, Masao Arata and Tadao Ikeda during a period when Ozu is rather short on cash; hence the composite penname.
Kihachi (Takeshi Sakamoto), an unemployed worker, wan...
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An Inn in Tokyo (東京の宿, Tokyo no yado) is a 1935 silent film directed by Yasujiro Ozu. The film is Ozu's last extant silent film.
The script of the film is credited to a person by the name of Uinzato Mone, which means in Japanese, "Without Money". In fact the screenplay was written by Ozu, Masao Arata and Tadao Ikeda during a period when Ozu is rather short on cash; hence the composite penname.
Kihachi (Takeshi Sakamoto), an unemployed worker, wanders around the industrial flatlands of Tokyo's Koto district with his two young sons, Zenko (Tomio Aoki) and Masako (Takayuki Suematsu). He is unable to find a job and has to rely on his sons catching stray dogs to earn reward money for their meals. As days go by, Kihachi and the boys no longer have enough money to stay at an inn for the night. Luckily for him, he encounters an old friend, Otsune (Chouko Iida), who finds him a job and allows them to stay at her eatery house.
Kihachi meets again a fellow impoverished soulmate, a single mother...
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