Street Without End

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car.

• Jitsuzo IkedaScreenplay
• Mikio NaruseDirector

• Setsuko ShinobuSugiko Shima
• Akio IsonoKoichi, her younger brother
• Hikaru YamanouchiHiroshi Yamanouchi
• Nobuko WakabaTakako, his elder sister
• Fumiko Katsuragimother
• Shinichi HimoriShinkichi Yamamura
• Chiyoko KatoriKesako Nakane
• Ichiro YukiMachio Harada
• Yukiko InoueYoshiko Hisayama
• Fujiko Matsuzonoher friend
• Reikō TaniButler
• Sadako ArakiWaitress at café