Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
Nagaya shinshiroku (original title)Reference View | Change View
- 1h 12min
- Drama
- 20 May 1947 (Japan)
- Movie
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Cast
Chôko Iida | ... |
Otane
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Hôhi Aoki | ... |
Kohei the boy
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Eitarô Ozawa | ... |
Father
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Mitsuko Yoshikawa | ... |
Kikuko
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Reikichi Kawamura | ... |
Tamekichi
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Hideko Mimura | ... |
Okiku
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Chishû Ryû | ... |
Tashiro
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Takeshi Sakamoto | ... |
Kihachi Kawayoshi
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Eiko Takamatsu | ... |
Tome Kawayoshi
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Taiji Tonoyama | ... |
Photographer
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Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Yûichi Kôno |
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Seiji Nishimura | ... |
Neighbor
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Fujiyo Osafune | ... |
Shigeko
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Yoshino Tani | ... |
Mother
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Directed by
Yasujirô Ozu |
Written by
Tadao Ikeda | ... | () |
Yasujirô Ozu | ... | () |
Produced by
Mitsuzô Kubo | ... | producer |
Music by
Ichirô Saitô |
Cinematography by
Yûharu Atsuta |
Editing by
Yoshi Sugihara |
Art Direction by
Tatsuo Hamada |
Set Decoration by
Shôtarô Hashimoto | ||
Mototsugu Komaki |
Costume Design by
Taizô Saitô |
Makeup Department
Iyono Masubuchi | ... | hair stylist |
Production Management
Dai Watanabe | ... | production supervisor |
Art Department
Matsutarô Utena | ... | set designer |
Sound Department
Rokusaburô Saitô | ... | sound mixer |
Yoshisaburô Senoo | ... | sound |
Camera and Electrical Department
Haruo Isono | ... | gaffer |
Additional Crew
Don Brown | ... | English subtitle translation |
Catherine Cadou | ... | french subtitles |
Ryûji Hayashi | ... | film development |
Shirô Kobayashi | ... | photographic processing |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Alive (1990) (France) (theatrical)
- Carlotta Films (2005) (France) (theatrical)
- Shochiku (1947) (Japan) (theatrical)
- A Contracorriente Films (2023) (Spain) (4K remastered)
- British Film Institute (BFI) (2023) (United Kingdom) (Blu-ray)
- Carlotta Films (2019) (France) (Blu-ray)
- Filmax (2008) (Spain) (DVD)
- Leopardo Filmes (2023) (Portugal)
- NHK-BS2 (1992) (Japan) (tv)
- New Yorker Films (1977) (United States) (subtitled)
- Shochiku (2003) (Japan) (DVD) (DVD box set)
- Shochiku (2013) (Japan) (DVD)
- The Criterion Channel (2023) (United States) (tv) (streaming)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- Titra Film Paris (french subtitling)
Storyline
Plot Summary |
A young boy follows Tashiro home to his tenement housing complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, the boy who was separated from his carpenter father somehow and somewhere in Kudan. All Tashiro knows is that the boy and his father came to town from Chigasaki that morning. Despite Tashiro's want to house the kid until they decide what to do more permanently, Tashiro's roommate, Tamekichi, the tenement's head, won't let the kid stay, not liking children and not wanting to get involved. So Tashiro foists the kid onto their neighbor, the widowed Tane, who too protests, she also not liking children and not wanting to get involved. Tane treats the boy with disdain, which only increases by the next morning due to an overnight incident. Amongst the tenement residents, Tane is charged with going to Chigasaki to see if she can find the father or find out what happened to him. On that trip, what she learns by putting the pieces of the story together is that the father purposefully abandoned the boy as he went off to look for work. This news does not change Tane's outlook or poor treatment of the boy. Nothing changes as the week progresses, however Tane's outlook takes a one hundred eighty degree turn when there is the possibility that she may never see the boy again. Written by Huggo |
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Did You Know?
Trivia | This was the first movie made by director Yasujirô Ozu after returning to Japan from his wartime army service abroad. After the surrender, he had been held for half a year in a British POW camp near Singapore, where he had been stationed. Legend has it that he was late in returning to Japan (in February 1946) because, although he was scheduled to be repatriated earlier, another Japanese soldier was desperate to go home, and Ozu let this other man go in his place. See more » |
Movie Connections | Featured in Birth of the Cinema (2011). See more » |
Quotes |
Tamekichi:
[curious about Tashiro's work, which involves fortunetelling]
Does fortunetelling work? Tashiro: Of course it does. Nothing works better. Tamekichi: Really? The other day you left home wearing rain boots, but the day turned out to be sunny. Tashiro: Weather isn't my specialty. The weather forecast on the radio works well for that. See more » |