The Age of Beginnings (1947)

かけ出し時代

A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets into the right frame of mind by dressing the part as a vagrant with not a penny to his name. He gets into trouble ending up at the police station slammer overnight. He has no material to write about and, with his assignment unfulfilled, faces a cross editor.

Date of release

1947-07-15

Runtime

1h 21m

Director

Kiyoshi Saeki

Casting

• Susumu Fujita — Goro Asahina
• Setsuko Hara — Miyako Tomoda
• Den Obinata — Editor (as Den Obinata)
• Ureo Egawa — Brother-In-law Kohei
• Sōji Kiyokawa — Second Editor
• Atsuko Ichinomiya — Older Sister Kimiko
• Satoko Date — Tsutako
• Yūnosuke Itō — Writer Matsuura
• Zenichiro Kito — Yanosuke Maejima
• Ko Yamamuro — Writer Nemoto (as Ko Yamamuro)
• Mitsuko Yoshikawa — Older Sister Machiko

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