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A Hero of Tokyo
5.0
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1h 3m
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1935
Overview
The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife is a widow with a son and daughter of her own. However, Nemoto’s business turns out to be out a shady scam, and he disappears, leaving his wife to raise the three children alone. In order to support the family, she is obliged to become a bar hostess. She conceals this shameful employment from the children, but the truth comes out years later, after her daughter is rejected by her husband’s family when they investigate her background.
Cast
![Mitsugu Fujii pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FeP3uLJHLNCUXkd79AnHbquhh6GL.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Mitsugu Fujii
Kanichi Nemoto
![Mitsuko Yoshikawa pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2Fooi5kH8H4w7FFv5GPdITEf70vi9.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Haruko Nemoto
![Yukichi Iwata pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FdFh3CqfOHz7RiUOkZZhhq0I2qs9.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Yukichi Iwata
Kaichi Nemoto
![Michiko Kuwano pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FvV7K93i3ER7TM5sMpuSpzImwTZW.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Michiko Kuwano
Kayoko Nemoto
![Kōji Mitsui pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FnahTXDNpFHNfKMraAHNDYiLXBM.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Kōji Mitsui
Hideo Nemoto
![Tomio Aoki pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FqVWVcoNSJIwJmf9A7dkHa3wzZWZ.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Tomio Aoki
Kanichi as a boy
![Mitsuko Ichimura pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2Fg6ByLNufYlVQGjWzIHQrmqdJyri.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Mitsuko Ichimura
Kayoko as a girl
![Jun Yokoyama pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
Jun Yokoyama
Hideo as a boy
![Jun Yokoyama pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
Jun Yokoyama
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