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Love and the Shop Curtain
Love and the Shop Curtain
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  2. Love and the Shop Curtain

Love and the Shop Curtain

Original Title: 恋とのれん

1961
1h 26m
Drama

Status

Released

Release

1961

Runtime

1h 26m

Storyline

Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the ‘64 Tokyo Olympics. Maki, the son of the owner of the Benten Hotel, likes Yuri and wants to get closer to her. So, he asks Milton, an American exchange student, to stay at her inn so he can get closer to her. But Yuri is in love with Shin, a cook at her inn. And although Shin likes her too, the two are constantly bickering. Complicating matters more, is that every other available girl also likes Shin including Chikako, who lives at his boarding house, and Chikoma, who is a geisha. One day when Yuri gets a phone call, she suspects that her mother might be having an affair. But it turns out that Otami reunited with her old flame Tomo, who also used to work as a chef at the inn but left because he feared that their class backgrounds were too different. When Shin learns that Yuri is going to marry...will history repeat itself?

Score Distribution

Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h 26m
Apr 28, 1961
Languages
Japanese
Director
Yoshiaki Banshō
Production
Shochiku
Shochiku
Production Countries
Japan
Official Website

Top Cast

19 Cast Members

Chikage Awashima

Chikage Awashima

Miyuki Kuwano

Miyuki Kuwano

Junichiro Yamashita

Junichiro Yamashita

Kyōko Mine

Kyōko Mine

Shūji Sano

Shūji Sano

Kazuya Kosaka

Kazuya Kosaka

Junzaburō Ban

Junzaburō Ban

Masao Oda

Masao Oda

Toyo Takahashi

Toyo Takahashi

Ryuji Kita

Eiko Kujo

Eiko Kujo

E.H. Eric

E.H. Eric

Kumeko Urabe

Kumeko Urabe

Shingo Kiyokawa

Keiko Hatanaka

Akira Ōizumi

Akira Ōizumi

Seigo Fukuoka

Toyozō Yamamoto

Noriko Maki

Noriko Maki

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