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Song of the Flower Basket (1937)

Song of the Flower Basket poster
Original title
花籠の歌
Directed by
Heinosuke Gosho
Genre
drama
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 08m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Japanese restaurant owner and his daughter run a popular tonkatsu shop in Tokyo's Ginza district. The Korean cook secretly loves the daughter, while she is courted by two students. She becomes upset when one student is arrested on suspicion of murder.

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What happens

est un film japonais réalisé par Heinosuke Gosho et sorti en 1937. Dans le quartier de Ginza à Tokyo, le restaurant de tonkatsu (porc pané et frit) de Keizo Mori et de sa fille Yōko ne désemplit pas. Le cuisinier zainichi, M. Lee, est secrètement amoureux de Yōko, mais celle-ci est également courtisée par deux étudiants, Ono et son ami Hotta. Yōko est bouleversée lorsqu'Ono est arrêté, suspecté du meurtre d'une femme qu'il a jadis connu. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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