A Hero of Tokyo

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

Kanichi Nemoto

Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Haruko Nemoto

Yukichi Iwata

Kaichi Nemoto

Michiko Kuwano

Kayoko Nemoto

Kōji Mitsui

Hideo Nemoto

Tomio Aoki

Kanichi as a boy

Mitsuko Ichimura

Kayoko as a girl

Jun Yokoyama

Hideo as a boy

Jun Yokoyama