Overview - A Hero of Tokyo

Overview

The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife is a widow with a son and daughter of her own. However, Nemoto’s business turns out to be out a shady scam, and he disappears, leaving his wife to raise the three children alone. In order to support the family, she is obliged to become a bar hostess. She conceals this shameful employment from the children, but the truth comes out years later, after her daughter is rejected by her husband’s family when they investigate her background.

Cast

• Name: Mitsugu Fujii

  Character: Kanichi Nemoto

  Popularity: 0.1057

  

• Name: Mitsuko Yoshikawa

  Character: Haruko Nemoto

  Popularity: 0.3776

  

• Name: Yukichi Iwata

  Character: Kaichi Nemoto

  Popularity: 0.2878

  

• Name: Michiko Kuwano

  Character: Kayoko Nemoto

  Popularity: 0.3109

  

• Name: Kōji Mitsui

  Character: Hideo Nemoto

  Popularity: 0.8256

  

• Name: Tomio Aoki

  Character: Kanichi as a boy

  Popularity: 0.4621

  

• Name: Mitsuko Ichimura

  Character: Kayoko as a girl

  Popularity: 0.1811

  

• Name: Jun Yokoyama

  Character: Hideo as a boy

  Popularity: 0.1521