Our Town

The events begin in 1906. Takichi had worked hard labour in the Philippines. When the work ends he returns to Japan. He starts pulling a rickshaw in Osaka. The woman he loved has died of illness. A baby girl was left behind. Her name is Hatsue. Takichi raises her himself. The years pass. Hatsue grows into a young woman. She meets a man named Shintaro. The two of them are in love. Takichi stands against the match. The tension between father and daughter grows. The film tells of a neighbourhood and the years that pass in it. Ryūtarō Tatsumi and Yōko Minamida appear in the ninety eight minute film, a Japanese production Yūzō Kawashima finished in 1956.