Sochiku films.
TOKYO HERO [TOKYO NO EIYU]
Screenplay ARATA Masao Camera NOMURA Hiroshi.
Music SUZUKAWA lejyun.
Cast.
IWATA Yukichi YOSHIKAWA Mitsuko.
KUWANO Michiko FUJII Mitsugu MITSUI Kôji.
ICHIMURA Mitsuko YOKOYAMA Jun TSUTSUNUKI.
Directed by SHIMIZU Hiroshi.
Do you want to play baseball?
I don't. My father is about to come back.
Baya, why does my father come so late every night?
He has more duties after having been promoted.
RYUGEN MINE AND MOUNTAIN FUNDRAISING OFFICE
What's been deposited is much less than what we thought.
RYUGEN MINE FUNDRAISING GOOD DIVIDENDS. TAKE ADVANTAGE!
I had never experienced anything so stupid.
Let's change the conditions and we'll advertise it again.
Your father always comes home early, doesn't he?
The later he comes the more responsibility he has.
My father also comes late when he has night shift.
Besides, he is paid 70 sen for doing the night shift.
Two nights in a row are 1 yen 50 sen.
See? My father is that great!
But your father always goes by train.
My father always returns by car.
See? My father is that great!
You've said 30 sen.
There are bills piling up.
Your son feels very lonely when you come back so late.
I see. I was thinking about getting married.
But that will happen after I finish my work project.
WIFE WANTED FOR IMPORTANT COMPANY OFFICIAL WITH GOOD SALARY
So I will have not only a mother but also a little brother and a little sister.
I hope you will get along with them.
But I will scold them if they are impudent.
Since you already live with us at home, I can be calm and devote myself to working.
They call me "you" or "Kanichi", although we are already brothers and sister.
They probably feel ashamed.
INTERNAL CRISIS IN RYUGEN MINE AND MOUNTAIN PROJECT
What time did your husband leave?
Yesterday morning...
And last night?
He didn't come back.
Do you have any idea of where he may have gone?
I don't know.
And do you have any idea about this matter?
I don't know him so well, we just got married.
But I trust my husband.
After all, he has left his own son in my care.
So when your husband comes back...
But if your husband didn't come back...
I will take care of them by all means.
Even though it's not so long ago, we are a mother and a son.
Why don't you go and play outside?
Because everyone is asking us questions.
TO LET
I wonder who that woman is who just moved into flat 18 on the 2nd floor.
There must be hidden reasons, as she looks so elegant.
She is very different from us.
I am too old to be a waitress...
I have too many children to be a maid...
I have no curriculum vitae to be an administrative employee...
Mother, what's the club like where you work?
It's a place where executives go to chat and relax.
And what is your job?
Mother, you've come back very late.
I had a lot of work to do...
Mother has been promoted.
What's the matter with you?
Mother isn't here.
ALL THIS HAPPENED TEN YEARS AGO
Have you already found a fiancé?
It is too soon for you to get married. You haven't even learnt to make croquettes.
But you have a fiancée, too.
Kayo, aren't you going to take a decision yet?
I don't know what type of fabric my boyfriend would like.
Kayo is a beautiful bride.
When you two finish your studies, I can retire without any worries.
How come you're here at this hour?
He has sent me home.
Why?
You know very well.
Tomorrow they will send my things.
He won't come to say goodbye to us. He says it's a matter of good will.
Please don't say anything to your brothers.
Your brothers don't know anything.
At least until they have finished their careers.
You should have learnt to make croquettes.
But it's not at all nice of him not to tell the reason.
Don't ask more. I'm having an awful time.
"I think I had better not stay at home for the sake of my brothers. Kayoko."
I don't understand why she has to leave home.
It's not so terrible. She's probably gone to learn how to make croquettes.
Ever since Kayo got separated, my girlfriend doesn't want to meet me.
Maybe your girlfriend is also focusing on learning to make croquettes at home.
Why have you refused to meet me lately?
Because...
I went to your place every day and signalled to you by whistling.
Because...
Yesterday I spent three hours whistling.
Because... I...
I have been warned.
You used to understand me.
Or do they think that I am a bad boy?
Do you know the reason for Kayo's separation?
The reason...
Mother, have you concealed something from us?
Why are you suddenly asking me?
Why should I hide something from you?
You have.
What do you do for a living at present?
What do you think I do?
Why did Kayo separate?
It shouldn't worry you while you are studying.
Please trust me.
Trust me. Nothing else.
Trust your mother.
He has come also tonight.
He wants to see someone.
I'm going to talk to him.
Don't you want to drink?
Do you want to dance?
Do whatever you want.
Mother, you don't have to worry.
Anyone going through teenagerhood goes astray at least once.
Although it's not my case.
Don't worry your mother.
This way her hair will get whiter.
No buyer yet for this place?
Why are you in such a hurry?
I want to quit this business as soon as possible for the sake of my children.
Mother!
So you aren't hiding anything from us?
What you have been doing so far,
what you are doing...
It's all clear now!
And you are still telling me that I should trust you?
I didn't want you to take care of me this way.
I didn't want to go to university this way.
I heard rumours and I've come...
I came several times. And each time I didn't find you, I was glad.
I wished the rumour would be only that, a rumour.
Why did you pay attention to a rumour?
This place isn't appropriate for you.
Being my son, you shouldn't come to this place.
True, being my mother, you shouldn't be here.
You mustn't worry so much. He'll come back.
I'm not worried.
If you are at home, I'm happy.
You must miss Kayoko and Hideo.
But if you had gone away, I would be very sad.
12 years have gone by since then, and 5 years since I have the bar.
How time goes by.
Girls, you'd better quit as soon as you can and become good wives.
I don't care about the debt you still owe me.
I don't need this business anymore as my son is graduating.
What do I look like? Like a professional journalist?
I am so glad.
At last I have done my duty.
Mother!
Forgive me.
Mother, don't say anything.
But I...
Don't say anything.
My mother is a great person.
I know what you were going to tell me.
I have the best mother in the whole of Japan.
Whatever they may say, I have the best mother in Japan.
They've said that I should write a love story to begin with.
Do you have any idea for the Sunday supplement?
Why don't you go for a walk in the city?
FUNDRAISING FOR THE MANGOU MINE
FUNDRAISING FOR THE MANGOU MINE 1 INSTALMENT 1 YEN
Mangou seems to be doing well.
He has a lot of prestige and good advertising.
If you do some research, you may get a surprise.
I see. But start writing a love story. You will avoid complications.
TOKYO DANCE AT MINATO FAIR PERFORMANCE OF THE SOCHIKU SHOJYO COMPANY
SPRING DANCE
THEATRE
SOCHIKU SHOJYO OPERA THEATRE COMPANY
I don't know what to say about the love story.
A girl like you, Miss Kyomachi, must have two or three boyfriends.
You're so rude. I haven't got so many.
So you do have one?
None.
Wait... I have one.
Go ahead.
Watch from the stands.
I have fallen into the trap!
Do you have another idea for next Sunday supplement?
I've heard there is a girl walking 5 or 6 times a day through Ginza.
Sounds good.
Who is she?
I often see her in Ginza.
What do you do?
I walk through Ginza.
To walk is what you do for a living?
What do you do?
As I was rejected by my husband, I don't get hired for normal jobs.
So what?
I'm like her.
Though perhaps more famous.
Don't mention my name if you write about me.
Maybe there are people who take offence.
How is mother?
She has gone grey lately. Why don't you come back home?
When I quit this job.
But you could persuade Hideo to go back home.
Where is Hideo?
You'll find him if you take a walk around all Ginza bars.
He is quite popular.
I heard you've become a journalist. Congratulations.
Let's have a drink to celebrate it.
If you want a fight, I have the upper hand.
But I can't fight you.
Mother is sad. Why don't you come back home?
Tell her this when you see her at home:
"Thanks to you I am very much respected in this neighbourhood."
I was tidying up Hideo's desk and found this.
You miss him, don't you?
No. I don't feel like seeing him.
I'm happy if he is doing well and is healthy.
Is Kayoko in?
If you want to see her, you'd better wait for her on Owarimachi corner.
Do you know where the man lives who came last night?
Ginza is very big.
No, I can't go in.
If I was a normal worker with a salary of 10 or 20 yen...
Mother would cry if I went in such as I am now.
Kanichi isn't worried about the kimono...
Hideo was very demanding regarding that.
He bought this kimono. And he had very clear ideas about the measurements.
As for Kayoko, western clothes suited her better than kimonos.
But then she started saying that a kimono is more appropriate for married women...
And she began to wear it before getting married.
Do you have a mother?
Apart from a mother, I have a father, grandfather and grandmother.
That's great. I only have a mother.
So being this your first night job, she'll be alone tonight.
A gang fight?
What? He's been killed?
The reason...
Treachery.
The killers have disappeared.
The victim is Nemoto Hideo. Age 21.
Injury: A 15 cm incision on the left breast.
Critical state.
What happened?
A company needed yakuzas,
and when I got hired I discovered that one of the executives was our father.
So I didn't feel anymore at all like working there.
My friends thought that I had betrayed them and stabbed me.
And that company?
A company that hires yakuzas.
Being a journalist you should know about these things.
Brother, the truth is that I wanted to see mother...
But don't tell her that I've died as abjectly as this.
If I close my eyes, I can hear the lullaby my mother is singing.
NEMOTO Kanichi.
Are you Kanichi?
I've come as a journalist. So this will be a conversation between a businessman and a journalist.
Does the Mangou mine business really exist?
Of course it does.
Are the dividends the ones that have been officially published?
Of course they are.
Have the excavations begun?
The railway works have begun.
There was a very similar business some years ago.
In those days, apart from the harmed people, the offender's family led a wretched life.
Can you assert that you won't be doing the same this time?
Why was it necessary, then, to hire yakuzas?
What was the reason?
Tell me the reason!
One of the yakuzas you hired just died in a squalid way. It was my brother.
Hideo?
Yes, it was him. Even if he was a stepson, it was your son.
And my mother, despite being my stepmother, looked after me...
and became a true mother, sacrificing herself for me.
Business was what mattered to you, even if you had to sacrifice your family!
You loved money so much that you were cheating!
For my mother,
for my brother,
for my sister,
for society,
I demand from you to kill yourself!
It's very painful for me to ask my father to do so.
But I have to on behalf of my mother, my sister and society.
MANGOU MINE TAKES OFF ITS MASK
This is the first bonus.
I didn't want you to do this.
This wasn't my intention when I took you to university.
How can I apologize to your father?
If someone has to apologize it's him.
The son reveals to society the father's guilt.
I have done my duty before my father.
Father sent greetings for you, mother.
THE END