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Record of a Tenement Gentleman is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Yasujirō Ozu released in USA on 9 january 2012 with Chishū Ryū
Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
Nagaya shinshiroku
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Add to a movie listThe Record of a Tenement Gentleman (長屋紳士録, Nagaya shinshiroku) is a Japanese film written and directed by Yasujirō Ozu in 1947. The film was Ozu's first after World War II.
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Tashiro (Chishū Ryū), Tamekichi (Reikichi Kawamura), and O-tane (Chōko Iida) are among the residents of a poor district of Tokyo that has been severely damaged in the bombing raids of 1944-45. They live on the economic margins of a society devastated by years of war: Tashiro is a street fortune teller, Tamekichi mends pots and pans and also buys and sells whatever he can get hold of, and O-tane is a widow who sells what odds and ends of hardware she can obtain.Actors
Chishū Ryū
(Tashiro)
Chōko Iida
(Otane)
Mitsuko Yoshikawa
(Kikuko)
Eitarō Ozawa
(Father)
Takeshi Sakamoto
(Kawayoshi)
Taiji Tonoyama
(Photographer)
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