A hard-working new employee at a trading company is promoted through the company president's business. However, he quarrels with his wife over something trivial, and her wife runs away from home, causing a fuss, but she returns to normal. Selected by Kinema Junpo as the 5th-best Japanese movie of 1926.
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Tsuzuya Moroguchi
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Yukiko Tsukuba
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Jun Arai
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Every-Night Dreams
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Hideo Fujino
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Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
ABC Lifeline
Kinuyo Tanaka
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Sansho the Bailiff
Ugetsu
Chōko Iida
Known for
The Only Son
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Hideo Takeda
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Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
The Boss's Son at College
Atsushi Watanabe
Known for
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Shin'ichi Akita
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The Story of Wu Fong / Gijin Goho
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Hôtei Nomura Director · Tokusaburo Murakami Screenplay Shin'ichi Nagai Cinematographer
First release August 30, 1926 · Produced in Japan · Original title カラボタン
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Shochiku Kinema (Kamata)
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Japan
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Original title
カラボタン
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Japan · August 30, 1926
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No release date listed for United States.
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