Mornings TreeLined Street

As suggested by the title this film takes up the theme of the city beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyos point of view on a bus leaving the countryside and entering the metropolitan cityscape After some fruitless job hunting in downtown Tokyo Chiyo accepts a job as a bar hostess in Shiba ward Well away from glamorous Asakusa and Ginza this is a neighborhood bar where the women are dirt poor each having only one kimono to their name