Children of Tokyo (1932)
Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo (original title)Reference View | Change View
- Not Rated
- 1h 30min
- Comedy, Drama
- 03 Jun 1932 (Japan)
- Movie
- 1 win.
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Cast
Tatsuo Saitô | ... |
Yoshi (Chichi)
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Tomio Aoki | ... |
Keiji
(as Tokkan Kozô)
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Mitsuko Yoshikawa | ... |
Haha (Yoshi's Wife)
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Hideo Sugawara | ... |
Ryoichi
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Takeshi Sakamoto | ... |
Juuyaku (Iwasaki, Executive)
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Teruyo Hayami | ... |
Fujin (Iwasaki's wife)
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Seiichi Katô | ... |
Kodomo (Taro)
(as Seiichi Kato)
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Shôichi Kofujita | ... |
Kozou (Delivery boy)
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Seiji Nishimura | ... |
Sensei (Teacher)
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Zentarô Iijima | ... |
Asobi nakama (Friend)
(as Zentaro Iijima)
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Shôtarô Fujimatsu | ... |
Asobi nakama (Friend)
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Masao Hayama | ... |
Asobi nakama (Friend)
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Michio Sato | ... |
Asobi nakama (Friend)
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Kuniyasu Hayashi | ... |
Asobi nakama (Friend)
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Akio Nomura | ... |
Asobi nakama (Friend)
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Teruaki Ishiwatari | ... |
Asobi nakama (Friend)
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Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Chishû Ryû | ... |
Home Movies Projectionist (uncredited)
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Directed by
Yasujirô Ozu |
Written by
Akira Fushimi | ... | (scenario) |
Geibei Ibushiya | ... | (adaptation) |
Yasujirô Ozu | ... | (idea) (as James Maki) |
Music by
Gwenaël Mario Grisi | ... | (2016) |
Donald Sosin |
Cinematography by
Hideo Shigehara |
Editing by
Hideo Shigehara |
Art Direction by
Takashi Kôno | ... | (as Takashi Kono) |
Set Decoration by
Yoshiro Kimura | ||
Takejirô Tsunoda | ... | (as Takejiro Tsunoda) |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Kenkichi Hara | ... | assistant director |
Akira Kiyosuke | ... | assistant director |
Camera and Electrical Department
Yûharu Atsuta | ... | assistant camera |
Masao Irie | ... | assistant cinematographer |
Toshimitsu Nakajima | ... | lighting engineer |
Additional Crew
Don Brown | ... | English subtitle translation |
Production Companies
Distributors
- New Yorker Films (1972) (United States) (theatrical) (re-release)
- trigon-film (2007) (Austria) (theatrical)
- trigon-film (2007) (Germany) (theatrical)
- trigon-film (2007) (Switzerland) (theatrical) (re-release)
- The Criterion Collection (2008) (United States) (DVD) (as Eclipse from the Criterion Collection)
- trigon-film (2008) (Switzerland) (DVD)
- Janus Films (2010) (United States) (theatrical)
- BFI Video (2011) (United Kingdom) (DVD)
- The Criterion Channel (2019) (United States) (tv) (digital)
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Storyline
Plot Summary |
The Yoshi family - husband and wife Kennesuke and Haha, a middle manager at an office and a housewife respectively, and their two adolescent sons Keiji and Ryoichi - have just moved from the inner city to the suburbs of Tokyo, into the same neighborhood where Kennesuke's boss, Iwasaki, and his family live. The boys get off to a rocky start in their new neighborhood as they end up being bullied by a group of similarly aged boys, led by slightly bigger Kamekichi. Keiji and Ryoichi even secretly play hooky from school, not wanting to have to confront the bullies. After befriending Kozou, the older delivery boy at the local store who ends up being their protector of sorts, Keiji and Ryoichi are able to stand up to their tormentors to become the ones among the boys who call the shots. Their newfound pride takes a hit when they end up being at the same social gathering as their father and his coworkers at Iwasaki's house, and see that their father is a proverbial apple-polisher toward Iwasaki and not the important man they previously believed him to be. Kennesuke knows how his behavior looks to his sons, but justifies it to himself by probably being further ahead in life than they would be otherwise. The Yoshis will have to reconcile these two issues for harmony to return within their family. Written by Huggo |
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Did You Know?
Trivia | The film's release was delayed by many months when Shochiku Studio's Shirô Kido felt the movie's story was too dark in tone. The film would go on to win Kinema Jumpo's first prize that year. See more » |
Movie Connections | Featured in Episode #1.1 (1980). See more » |
Quotes |
Yoshi (Chichi):
All young boys should have a little mischief in them. See more » |