Song of the Flower Basket
About Song of the Flower Basket
Yoko draws the trade at her father's tonkatsu cafe on a back street in Ginza. The student Hotta, who is due to inherit a temple, helps his poorer friend Ono court her, while her aunt pushes a doctor. She marries Ono. The police then question him about a postcard to a bar hostess who has died, and Yoko talks of divorce. The cook Li, who loves her and whom she has not noticed, takes her photograph off his wall and leaves. Hotta arranges a meeting that settles the marriage.
Cast & crew
More about Song of the Flower Basket
Heinosuke Gosho directed, with Kinuyo Tanaka as Yoko and Chishu Ryu as Hotta. MUBI gives 69 minutes and places the cafe on a back street of Ginza. The Japanese title is Hana-kago no uta, also written Hanakago no uta.
Themes
Preservation
A print is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Hideko Takamine, then about twelve, plays Yoko's younger sister.
- The aunt wants a doctor for Yoko because the father needs a son-in-law for the shop, and the sister is too young.
- A waitress in the shop loves Li, the cook who has come from China.
- Kogo Noda is named as screenwriter on drama-database listings of the film.
Scenes
- Yoko refuses the doctor her aunt brings to the restaurant.
- Police ask Ono about the dead hostess.
- Li takes Yoko's photo down and goes.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Song of Flower Basket (1937) by Heinosuke Gosho.webm)
