Tokyo no gassho
AKA Tokyo Chorus in the USA
(1931) Japanese
B&W : 2487 metres
Directed by Yasujiro 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)], Chouko Iida [sensei no tsuma (teacher’s wife)], Takeshi Sakamoto [rou-shain yamada (old employee)], Reiko Tani [shachou (the company president)], Kenichi Miyajima [hisho (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 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 1.37:1 format. / Silent film.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Listing updated: 24 February 2008.

References: Anderson-Japanese p. ? : Website-IMDb.

Home Video: DVD.