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Love and the Shop Curtain

Apr 28, 1961 · 1h 26m
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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?

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CAST

Chikage Awashima
Miyuki Kuwano
Junichiro Yamashita
Kyōko Mine
Shūji Sano
Kazuya Kosaka
Junzaburō Ban
Masao Oda
Directed by Yoshiaki Banshō

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Status
Released
Original language
JA
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Production
Shochiku
Country
JP
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