Morning's Tree-Lined Street

After some fruitless career hunting in downtown Tokyo, Chiyo accepts a job as a bar hostess in Shiba ward. Well away from glamorous Asakusa and Ginza, this is a neighbourhood tavern where the women are dirt poor, each having only one kimono to their name...

• Mikio NaruseDirector
• Mikio NaruseWriter

• Sachiko ChibaChiyo
• Heihachirō ŌkawaOgawa
• Ranko AkagiShigeyo (Hisako)
• Nijiko KiyokawaFusako
• Satoko DateMitsuko
• Hatsuko NatsumeCast
• Tamae KiyokawaMadame at café
• Kō MihashiChiyo's father
• Masao MishimaMadame's husband
• Misao YamaguchiChiyo's mother