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An Inn in Tokyo

 An Inn in Tokyo
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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })An Inn in Tokyo is a 1935 film from Japan directed by Yasujiro Ozu.Kihachi is an unemployed lathe operator and a single dad with two young sons, Zenko and Masako. As the story opens, the little family is in desperate straits. They wander a Tokyo industrial district, with Kihachi desperately looking for work, but there is no work to be had. They are hungry, and sometimes they have to sleep out in the open, and when they do find lodging it's sleeping on the floor of an inn with other homeless people.Kihachi's luck turns when he runs into Otsune, an old friend from years ago. She is the proprietor of an inn, and she lets Kihachi and the boys stay there, and she finds Kihachi a job. Meanwhile, Kihachi grows acquainted with Otaka, a pretty woman with a daughter named Kimiko who is just as poor and desperate as Kihachi is.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Yasujiro Ozu's last surviving silent film.
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 Heroic Sacrifice
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 Heroic Sacrifice: Kihachi goes thieving, and heads off to arrest and imprisonment, to get the money to save little Kimiko.
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 Jobless Parent Drama
 An Inn in Tokyo / int_974e6dcc
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 Jobless Parent Drama: A penniless, jobless Kihachi desperately looks for work to feed his hungry sons.
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 Japanese Politeness
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 Japanese Politeness: Seen frequently, like when Kihachi keeps a cheerful smile plastered to his face even when he's pleading for Otsune to help him find a job, saying "Please, I beg you."
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 An Inn in Tokyo / int_c1901748
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 Healthcare Motivation
 An Inn in Tokyo / int_c1901748
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 Healthcare Motivation: Otaka takes a job as a sake club hostess to provide for Kimiko, who is suffering from chronic dysentery. Kihachi then resorts to theft to get the money needed for Kimiko's doctor.
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 Downer Beginning
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 Downer Beginning: The first scene shows Kihachi and his sons, hungry and bedraggled, wandering around the Koto district as he looks for work. He walks up to a factory only to be rudely rejected by the guard.
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 An Inn in Tokyo
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 Jobless Parent Drama / int_3347ee9f
 An Inn in Tokyo
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 The Place / int_3347ee9f