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Entotsu no mieru basho

Entotsu no mieru basho

1953Movie⏱️ 1h 48m
ComedyDrama
7.5
IMDB Rating
360 votes

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.

Director
Heinosuke Gosho
Writers
Hideo Oguni, Rinzo Shiina
Stars
Kinuyo Tanaka, Ken Uehara, Hideko Takamine
Release Date
March 5, 1953
Language
Japanese
Country
Japan
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Wins
💬 3
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Kinuyo Tanaka
Kinuyo Tanaka
as Hiroko Ogata
Ken Uehara
Ken Uehara
as Ryukichi Ogata
Hideko Takamine
Hideko Takamine
as Senko Azuma
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Hiroshi Akutagawa
as Kenzo Kubo
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Chieko Seki
as Yukiko Ikeda
Ranko Hanai
Ranko Hanai
as Katsuko Ishibashi
Takeshi Sakamoto
Takeshi Sakamoto
as Tokuji Kawamura
Haruo Tanaka
Haruo Tanaka
as Chuji Tsukahara
Eiko Miyoshi
Eiko Miyoshi
as Ranko
Kumeko Urabe
Kumeko Urabe
as Kayo Nojima

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White
Filming Location
Tokyo, Japan
Production
Shintoho Film Distribution Committee, Studio Eight Pro

🏷️ Keywords

povertymarriageabandoned babybabybased on novel

🎯 Categories

JapaneseComedyDrama

⭐ Featured Review

How Many Chimneys Are There?
by boblipton2019-08-31
7/10

"Kinuyo Tanaka lost her husband during the bombings at the end of the War. Two years ago she married Ken Uehara. They own a mews in a part of Tokyo where the rains flood the ground. They live on the ground floor of one of the building, and rent out the other houses, and the top floor to two tenants in two apartments: Hideko Takamine and Hiroshi Akutagawa. It's a noisy neighborhood from dawn to dusk, what with drums banging and radios blaring. It's distinguished -- in the minds of the occupants, because from the viewpoints of the neighbors, Tokyo seems to have three industrial chimneys..."

📖 Synopsis

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.