Tokyo no gassho
Also known as Tokyo no korasu in Japan; Tokyo Chorus in the USA
(1931) Japan
B&W : [?] Eight or Nine? reels / 2487 metres
Directed by Yasujirô Ozu
Cast: Tokihiko Okada [Shinji Okajima], Emiko Yagumo [Tsuma Sugako, his wife], Hideo Sugawara [sono chounan (first son)], Hideko Takamine [sono choujo (first daughter)], Tatsuo Saito [omura sensei (teacher)], Chôko Iida [sensei no tsuma (teacher’s wife)], Takeshi Sakamoto [rou-shain yamada (an old employee)], Reiko Tani [shachou (the company president)], Kenichi Miyajima [hisho (a secretary)], Isamu Yamaguchi [kaisha no douryou (an employee)]
Shochiku Kinema Kenkyû-jo production; distributed by Shochiku Kinema Kenkyû-jo. / Scenario by Kôgo Noda, from an adaptation by Komatsu Kitamura and Kôgo Noda of a screen story by Komatsu Kitamura and Kôgo Noda. Costume design by Kurenai Saitou. Lighting engineer, Toshimitsu Nakajima. Hair stylist, Iyono Kikuchi. Assistant directors, Kenkichi Hara, Akira Kiyosuke and Hamao Negichi. Cinematography by Hideo Shigehara. Camera assistants, Yuuji Atsuta (Yuuharu Atsuta), Eijirô Fujita and Kuri Hayashi (Minoru Kuribayashi). Edited by Hideo Shigehara. / Released 15 August 1931. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.
Comedy-Drama.
Survival status: Print exists [35mm positive].
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Listing updated: 12 August 2010.
References: Anderson-Japanese p. ? : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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