Tokyo Chorus
Tokyo Chorus , Tokyo no krasu? is a 1931 silent film produced by Shochiku Company, directed by Yasujir Ozu and starring Tokihiko Okada and Emiko Yagumo. It was based on various stories in the Shoshimingai Middle Class Avenue series and also shares influences with King Vidors The Crowd. Most of the film takes place in Tokyo during a depressionlike time in the beginning of the Shwa period.
Sugako scolds her husband saying he should not lie to children. He eventually shows her his discharge notice and she tries to get her son to accept the scooter. Chounan refuses and Okajima says quietly that they should buy him a bike, which by the next scene they apparently have. Still looking for employment Okajima does his best to be pleasant. He sees his son playing with a group of boys and their bikes only to be told that Miyoko is sick with childhood diarrhea. Upset he takes his son and rushes home to find it is true. Sugako informs him the doctor wanted Miyoko to stay at the hospital but due to money concerns she waited. Okajima says he will make the money somehow and tells his son to summon a rickshaw to take them all to the hospital. At the hospital Miyoko recovers apparently quickly, but they are forced to sell Sugakos kimono to pay the bill.Still in need of work a well dressed Okajimo encounters his old teacher, Mr. Omura Tatsuo Saito. Omura has quit teaching and now runs a restaurant called The Calorie Caf. It mainly serves curry rice. He offers Okajimo a temporary job holding a banner and passing out flyers the very job Douryou ended up with earlier in the film after he was fired. Okajima is disappointed as he feels it is beneath him but takes it for his family. Sugako is distraught at the thought of her husband working such a degrading job, but decides to join them at the restaurant. ........
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