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An Inn In Tokyo
JAPAN · 1935

An Inn In Tokyo

Yasujiro Ozu
poverty homelessness father-son relationships urban displacement human connection
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Synopsis

An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and befriends a woman and her daughter, who are in a similar predicament.

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