An Inn in Tokyo (1935)

Original title

東京の宿

Directed by

Yasujirō Ozu

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

Empire of Japan, Japan

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An unemployed man wanders through Tokyo with his young son. He meets a woman from his past and tries to help her while struggling with his own poverty.

melancholicquietslow-burngrittybleakobservantrestrainedintimate

What happens

An Inn in Tokyo (Japanese: 東京の宿, Hepburn: Tōkyō no yado) is a 1935 silent film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. The film is Ozu's last extant silent film. The screenplay is credited to Uinzato Mone or Winthat Monnet ("Without Money"). In fact, the screenplay was written by Ozu, Masao Arata and Tadao Ikeda during a period when Ozu was short on cash. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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