The Age of Beginnings

Jul 15, 1947

1h 21m

★ 0.0

Overview

A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets into the right frame of mind by dressing the part as a vagrant with not a penny to his name. He gets into trouble ending up at the police station slammer overnight. He has no material to write about and, with his assignment unfulfilled, faces a cross editor.

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Production Companies

Shintoho Company

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Cast

Goro Asahina

Susumu Fujita

Miyako Tomoda

Setsuko Hara

Editor (as Den Obinata)

Den Obinata

Brother-In-law Kohei

Ureo Egawa

Second Editor

Sōji Kiyokawa

Older Sister Kimiko

Atsuko Ichinomiya

Tsutako

Satoko Date

Writer Matsuura

Yūnosuke Itō

Yanosuke Maejima

Zenichiro Kito

Writer Nemoto (as Ko Yamamuro)

Ko Yamamuro

Older Sister Machiko

Mitsuko Yoshikawa

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