Nagaya shinshiroku

Name: Nagaya shinshiroku
Genre: Drama
Released: 1947-05-20
Duration: 1 h 12 min
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Chôko Iida, Hôhi Aoki, Eitarô Ozawa

19471947
1h 12m

IMDb RATING

7.7/10

1.9K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

95,567

39,177

Drama

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 kn... Read allA 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 Tashi... Read allA 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 roomma... Read all

IMDb RATING

7.7/10

1.9K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

95,567

39,177

Top credits

See production, box office & company info

See more at IMDbPro

Photos13

Hôhi Aoki and Chôko Iida in Nagaya shinshiroku (1947)

Chôko Iida and Mitsuko Yoshikawa in Nagaya shinshiroku (1947)

Chôko Iida and Reikichi Kawamura in Nagaya shinshiroku (1947)

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

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.

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.

Connections
Featured in Elokuvan tarina: Birth of the Cinema (2011)

User reviews14

Review

Featured review

8/10

Very Good

This is a simple story about a fortune teller (Chishu Ryu, who 2 years later would be in "Late Spring" looking like he aged 25 years) who brings home a lost boy. No one wants to take over the burden of caring for the kid, but Otane eventually has to (played by Lida Choko). She clearly wants to get rid of him after going to the place where the kid and his father lived, to find out the father deserted him. He wets the bed and thinks she'll throw him out anyway, because she shows no affection for the boy, but gradually warms to him. Ozu's film is simply told, but there is a sociological underpinning to it that is complex. This situation of deserted children in war and post war Japan had to be a significant one and it is told plainly but effectively. In the small community (with wide open spaces where buildings should be), there is camaraderie and that is heartwarming. It is a fairly short film, just 72 minutes, but the length of the film is perfect. Like many of Ozu's films, this features many of the actors/actresses that were in other films of his, but that is good. They know their roles so well and play them well. Not a masterpiece, but a worthy film to watch.

helpful•4