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JAPAN · 1936
Morning’s Tree-Lined Street
Synopsis
After some fruitless career 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 neighbourhood tavern where the women are dirt poor, each having only one kimono to their name...
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Films with Similar Themes
poverty · hostess culture · urban Tokyo · working women · class struggle
