An Inn at Osaka

Mr Mito, an executive at an insurance company in Tokyo, is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life. The film does not tell the fall as a catastrophe; it gives the daily relations formed with the people at the inn, with those who work there and with the other lodgers. The account makes the man neither a victim nor an example; it follows the change in how he looks at other people. The difference between Osaka and Tokyo stands throughout beneath the story. It comes from the vein of Japanese cinema of 1954 that gave ordinary life in detail. Shuji Sano and Nobuko Otowa appear in Heinosuke Gosho’s hundred and twenty two minute Japanese film, completed in 1954.