Summary: As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point o view on a bus leaving the countryside and entering the metropolitan cityscape. After some fruitless job 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 neighborhood bar where the women are dirt poor, each having only one kimono to their name.... (KG)

AKA: Ashita no namikimichi

Country: Japan

Directed By: Mikio Naruse

Written By: Mikio Naruse

Starring: Sachiko Chiba

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