A Hero of Tokyo (1935) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

1935 · 63 mins

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Directed by

Hiroshi Shimizu

Starring

Kôji Mitsui, Tomio Aoki, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Mitsuko Ichimura, Jun Yokoyama, Mitsugu Fujii

Widower Nemoto, who pretends to be a businessman, has a son, Kanichi. He remarries a widowed woman who also has a son and daughter. When Nemoto’s fraudulent enterprise collapses, he disappears, leaving his new wife to raise the three children alone. To support them she becomes a bar hostess, hiding the job from the kids. Years later the secret emerges after her daughter is rejected by her husband’s family during a background‑check investigation.