Tales of Ginza

The film is set in the Ginza district of Tokyo. The district is busy and full of life in those years. At the centre of the account is a woman. She is selling the art collection of the husband she lives apart from. Inside the collection is a portrait of herself. The portrait was painted fifteen years earlier. The woman does not know who made it. She decides to find the painter. The search takes her through the district. One of the people she meets along the way is a florist. The account carries the air of the postwar city as well. The film was adapted from a novel. Yumeji Tsukioka and Tatsuya Mihashi take the leads in Yūzō Kawashima’s Japanese film of 1955.