Where Chimneys Are Seen
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.
Kinuyo Tanaka
Hiroko Ogata
Ken Uehara
Ryukichi Ogata
Hideko Takamine
Senko Azuma
Hiroshi Akutagawa
Kenzo Kubo
Chieko Seki
Yukiko Ikeda
Ranko Hanai
Katsuko Ishibashi
Takeshi Sakamoto
Tokuji Kawamura
Haruo Tanaka
Chuji Tsukahara
Eiko Miyoshi
Ranko
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.
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