As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus leaving the countryside and entering the metropolitan cityscape. After some fruitless job hunting in downtown Tokyo, Chiyo accepts a job as a bar hostess in Shiba ward. Well away from glamorous Asakusa and Ginza, this is a neighborhood bar where the women are dirt poor, each having only one kimono to their name....
Directing | Mikio Naruse | Director |
Writing | Mikio Naruse | Writer |
Sound | Noboru Itô | Music Director |
Sound | Jun Yamaguchi | Sound Recordist |
Art | Takeo Kita | Settings |
Editing | Kôichi Iwashita | Editor |
Camera | Hiroshi Suzuki | Director of Photography |