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HADAKA NO MACHI
(The Naked Street)
A NIKKATSU PICTURE
Fukutomi conducts a phonograph shop in a certain thriving street. But he is too good-natured a man to succeed in business and falls heavily in debt. One of his creditors, a usurer by the name of Masuyama, takes advantage of his crass naivete, cleverly dispossessing him of his entire property. Fukutomi's fate, however, is not merely the tragedy of this individual alone ; it is the tragedy of a great many good-natured, weak-willed, petits bourgeois who are victimized and ruined by the scheming crooks of this world. Yet Fukutomi does not directly meet with ruin. He is saved and encouraged by his intelligent wife Kiyo, rises up again and leads a poor but honest life as conductor of one of those street-stalls that open for business at night.
“ The Naked Street ” is a free adaptation to the screen of the play by Yutaka Mafune, a young dramatist. Both the adaptation and the continuity are the work of Yasutaro Yagi. Tomu Uchida directed the film play.
The picture has a glaring defect in the matter of form. It is lacking in unity, and a certain part of it adheres too closely to the stage technique of the original play. But the subject itself, a forthright view of realities in the life and economy of the petite bourgeoisie and Tomu Uchida’s powerful execution of it, possess a quality which appeals to us tremendously. Also, Isamu Kosugi’s performance (as the usurer) and that of Chiyeko Murata (as the wife of Fukutomi) are not only excellent, but singularly impressive as well.
AKIRA IWASAKI
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