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Morning’s Tree-Lined Street
JAPAN · 1936

Morning’s Tree-Lined Street

Mikio Naruse
poverty hostess culture urban Tokyo working women class struggle
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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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