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Release Date:
July 15, 1947
Original Title:
かけ出し時代
Alternate Titles:
Kakedashi jidai
Production Companies:
Shintoho Company
Production Countries:
Japan
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 81
A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets into the right frame of mind by dressing the part as a vagrant with not a penny to his name. He gets into trouble ending up at the police station slammer overnight. He has no material to write about and, with his assignment unfulfilled, faces a cross editor.
Art Direction:
Tomoo Shimogawara
Book:
Yukio Togawa
Director:
Kiyoshi Saeki
Director of Photography:
Hiroshi Suzuki
Lighting Technician:
Kenzo Ginya
Music:
Fumio Hayasaka
Producer:
Masanobu Takeyama
Sound Recordist:
Isamu Suzuki
Writer:
Ryûji Nagami
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