Lonely Lane (Hourou ki)

Mama !

What is it ?

Papa. Papa's been arrested

Police?

They said he was cheating the customers.

Sing your song!

Come on, sing!

Louder!

One bottle makes your skin shine rosy

Two bottles make it shine like snow.

Try for yourself !

So this coloured water does the magic eh ? You fool

Stupid !

Her Lonely Lane

Executive Producers: Masumi Fujimoto

Mikio Naruse Tadahiro Teramoto

Screenplay by Toshiro Ide and Sumie Tanaka

From the novel by Fumiko Hayashi and the play by Kazuo Kikuta

Photography Jun Yasumoto

Production design SATOSHI Chuko

Music : Yuji Koseki

Starring

Hideko Takamine

Akira Takarada

Daisuke Kato

Keiju Kobayashi

Kinuyo Tanaka

Mitsuko Kusabue

Noboru Nakaya

Yunosuke Ito

Directed by Mikio Naruse

My mother and I are carrying bags

How hot it is !

Carrying a pack a girl totters through the city in the sun

Good day sir. Would you like to buy some

Very low price

Very nice, very low

I'm not buying

It's very hot in Tokyo.

My shadow on the white road is crawling like a black toad

Welcome home

isn't it hot ? How's business ?

Bad. It couldn't be worse.

Times are bad.

My work doesn't pay me much...

but I have nothing else.

I'm sorry, but will you give us time for the rent ?

All right

By the way, there's a letter from your husband.

Oh ?

No money with it, I'm sure. He should send us some.

Wouldn't she like being a bus conductress ?

conductress?

They pay 45 yen a month.

Afraid she can't do the work.

She's such a strange girl.

Why make so much smoke ?

Coal is bad

What did he father say ?

So much rain, he's not sold anything in Kyushu.

Let me see

I think I have to go to help him

He wrote he scarcely eats,

Bad luck, you and I are here living some place he can't live ?

Welcome home

Gotten hot, hasn't it ?

yes and it's only the beginning of summer.

Why act that way ?

Mr. Yasuoka spoke to you

I don't like him

Nor my father

Nor any man at all

Why don't you like your father ?

He's taken care of you since you were eight

You should thank him for that

I don't think I should.

You went to school, though

Did you forget it already ?

I worked through school, didn't I ?

I worked in factories, as a maid, and peddling

I earned my own living.

I even sent him money after I graduated from school.

Did you forget that too ?

You shouldn't say that.

I don't care.

We're no father and daughter,

You go to him, leave me alone!

I'll go on living if I have to become a whore.

Excuse me, would you like these ?

I bought some for you.

Thank you, it's very kind of you.

Going for a bath ?

yes, See you later.

Good day, and thank you.

He's very nice. Why don't you like him ?

Wonder how much he makes ?

He was widowed five years ago, Maybe he'll marry again.

None of your business.

Nor mine.

You still love Mr Katori, don't you ?

That student who brought you to Tokyo...

And when he finished school...

deserted you and went home.

Yes. I loved him...

And I can't forget him...

just like you love my father...

and won't be separated from him

I wish I could see you once more

I wish I had money now !!

I wish I had even ten yen

I wish I could buy a bowl of noodles.

It's no use writing a letter to him...

to a man who married a woman who is better than me

So this writing is only to console me.

How much do we have.

What are you doing ?

five yen

12 yen and 60 sen in all.

You take the money to go to Father

Don't worry... I am not a child anymore

I can take care of myself all right

Only thirty yen a month will do. But why can't I find a job ?

Had I five sen now, I could buy a sack of rice

Then, I'd have a nice boiled rice and pickled radish.

My wish is that simple

isn't there some way to make it come true ?

the line shortens little by little...

Some come out smiling and some disappointed

We are getting tired standing before the door.

Only two are wanted, but more than fifty girls have gathered here

Now, it's my turn at last.

He reads my personal history. examines my character...!

and appraises my appearance

After I am exposed to view for a while he says he'll advise me later.

I've got accustomed to this way of refusal...

but still it's stupid

I've powered my face very thick today

A picture of a country girl in town

I'm waiting for some theatre manager How does he look, I wonder

A tall man with glasses passes by me.

he's good-looking and well dressed

You're the applicant?

yes I am

He resumes walking.

So I follow him like a dog.

We enter a small bar

He says his troop is a touring company

and they lack actress so I could join any time

His handkerchief is peeping out of his breast pocket

His face looks thin, easy to forget.

By intuition, I feel something improper.

I endure anything, but being tricked by a man like him.

He unfolds my personal history with cigarette stained fingers

then pockets it.

Maybe what he needs is myself not my paper

he treats me to a glass of cider

and guides me to a hotel in which he has his office.

His office is a front.

A room without furniture looks strange.

He tell me lies, so I tell him lies.

No wonder the world is full of lies.

In due times he says he wants to play with me

I say it's absurd to say such things.

When I walk out of the room, a girl says she's brought noodles.

I smile my refusal and step out to the street.

but those red boxes of noodles linger before my eyes.

Will he eat all of the noodles?

I want to eat noodles.

I've found a job at a stock broker's office named Iwai

We'll give you 35 yen and in a month

Work hours are from 9 to 4.

By the way, can you keep accounts ?

What ?

book-keeping ?

I think I can

OK, we'll try you

35 yen a month with lunch !

What a wonderful world I see now !

Mother

You'd be surprises for your daughter's success if I sent you ten yen

The man leads me to a large desks.

As I sit before the desk like a block of rock

I become worried about what I've "said - " I can keep accounts."

I open the large book the man has brought

It's book-keeping by double entry...

and utterly different from what I know

The sweat streams down on my face.

Long arrays of big figures that I haven't ever seen before

If I calculated and entered these numbers all day...

I would be insane by night fall...

But I use the abacus as if I was clever with it

though I was no good at all in using it

And the memory chills my heart

A telegram for you.

Thank you.

Have you found a job ?

was

Employment cancelled. Iwai

Bad news ?

Sorry I'll be late with the rent.