Foundry Town

The account is set in the town of Kawaguchi. The town is known for its foundries. The chimneys are visible from everywhere in it. Jun is in her last year of junior high. She wants to go on to high school. Her father Tatsugoro works at a foundry. He was badly injured at work. Because of what the injury left him he cannot work as he did. The factory itself is doing badly too. What comes into the household drops. Jun starts working to pay for school. She finds a job at a parlour where a classmate works. The account comes from a story by Chiyo Hayafune. The story was first published in 1959. Eijiro Tono and Shoichi Ozawa are in the cast as well. Sayuri Yoshinaga and Mitsuo Hamada take the leads in Kirio Urayama’s Japanese film of 1962.