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Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
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RECORD OF A TENEMENT GENTLEMAN

長屋紳士録 | Nagaya shinshiroku

Directed by Yasujirô Ozu
Japan, 1947
Comedy, Drama

Synopsis

In post-war Japan, a man brings a lost boy to his tenement. No one wants to take the child for even one night; finally, a sour widow, Tané, does. The next day, complaining, she takes the boy to his neighborhood and finds his father has gone to Tokyo; it seems the boy has been abandoned.

Synopsis

In post-war Japan, a man brings a lost boy to his tenement. No one wants to take the child for even one night; finally, a sour widow, Tané, does. The next day, complaining, she takes the boy to his neighborhood and finds his father has gone to Tokyo; it seems the boy has been abandoned.