An Inn in Tokyo

An Inn in Tokyo
An Inn in Tokyo
Japanese name
Kanji	東京の宿
Revised Hepburn
Transcriptions
Revised Hepburn	Tōkyō no yado
Directed by	Yasujirō Ozu
Written by	(Yasujirō Ozu, Masao Arata, Tadao Ikeda)
Starring	Takeshi Sakamoto, Yoshiko Okada, Choko Iida, Kazuko Ojima
Cinematography	Hideo Mohara
Edited by	Hideo Mohara
Music by	Keizô Horiuchi
Production; company	Shochiku
Release date	November 21, 1935 (Japan);
Running time	80 minutes
Country	Japan
Languages	Silent film ; Japanese intertitles

An Inn in Tokyo (東京の宿, Tōkyō no yado) is a 1935 silent film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. The film is Ozu's last extant silent film.

The screenplay is credited to Uinzato Mone or Winthat Monnet ("Without Money"). In fact, the screenplay was written by Ozu, Masao Arata and Tadao Ikeda during a period when Ozu was short on cash.

Plot

Kihachi (Takeshi Sakamoto) wanders around the industrial flatlands of Tokyo's Koto district with his two young sons, Zenko (Tokkan Kozo) and Masako (Takayuki Suematsu), looking for work. Unable to find a job, Kihachi relies on his sons to catch stray dogs for the reward money, but Zenko wastes the bounty buying himself a much-desired officer's cap. Later, the brothers quarrel and lose the family's bundle. Kihachi tells them that they no longer have enough money to pay for both a meal and a bed for the night. They choose a meal. At a cafe they meet Kihachi's old friend, Otsune (Choko Iida), who finds Kihachi a job and allows the family to rent a room at the cafe.

Kihachi meets the impoverished Otaka (Yoshiko Okada) and her young daughter, Kimiko (Kazuko Ojima). Otaka is also unable to find work. Kihachi brings Otaka and Kimiko to Otsune's cafe for a meal.

Later, Kihachi discovers that Otaka has found work as a sake-house waitress. She explains that her daughter has fallen ill and she cannot afford to pay the hospital bills. Kihachi, unable to borrow money from Otsune to pay the bills, resorts to theft and has his sons take the proceeds to Otaka.

Kihachi confides in Otsune, who scolds him for keeping his worries to himself. He leaves the boys in Otsune's care and sets off for the police station to turn himself in.^[1]

Cast

Takeshi Sakamoto as Kihachi
Tokkan Kozo as Zenko
Takayuki Suematsu as Masako
Yoshiko Okada as Otaka
Kazuko Ojima as Kimiko
Choko Iida as Otsune
Chishū Ryū

References

^ Bordwell, David (1988). Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. pp. 262–265. ISBN 0-85170-158-2.

External links

An Inn in Tokyo at IMDb
An Inn in Tokyo at the TCM Movie Database
An Inn in Tokyo at AllMovie
"東京の宿 (Tokyo no yado)" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-08-05.

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[bordwell-1] Bordwell, David (1988). Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. pp. 262–265. ISBN 0-85170-158-2.

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