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.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Mitsugu Fujii, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Yukichi Iwata, Michiko Kuwano, Kōji Mitsui, Tomio Aoki
Crew: Hiroshi Shimizu (Director), Hiroshi Nomura (Director of Photography), Masao Arata (Screenplay), Yonekazu Wakita (Art Direction)
Country: Japan
Language: No Language
Studio: Shochiku
Runtime: 63 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Mar 07, 1935
IMDb: 6
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