
Tokyo Family(2013)
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.


Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.

Kinuyo Tanaka
Hiroko Ogata

Ken Uehara
Ryukichi Ogata

Hideko Takamine
Senko Azuma

Hiroshi Akutagawa
Kenzo Kubo

Chieko Seki
Yukiko Ikeda

Ranko Hanai
Katsuko Ishibashi

Takeshi Sakamoto
Tokuji Kawamura

Haruo Tanaka
Chuji Tsukahara
Eiko Miyoshi
Ranko

Kumeko Urabe
Kayo Nojima
Where Chimneys Are Seen is a drama film released in 1953. Directed by Heinosuke Gosho, it stars Kinuyo Tanaka, Ken Uehara, Hideko Takamine. Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.
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