A documentary film by a Japanese crew who traveled to Siam in 1938 to capture footage of the elephant round-up festival in Lopburi Province, as well as scenes of everyday life and cityscapes in Bangkok. The film also includes behind-the-scenes footage from the Sri Krung Sound Film Studio, featuring Manee Sumonnat, one of the first leading actresses of Thai cinema, whose work has otherwise been entirely lost.
Three mice run, cavort, sing and dance around in the stores and restaurants a big city at night. They wind up in a café for an early-morning snack and stocking up on food provisions before they return to the safety of their den beneath a man-hole cover in the street.
In the village of Sableuse, the local manor has been bought out by a nouveau riche, Emile Cousinet. When his wife Lisette, a former music hall actress, flees to Paris with young Pierre de Sableuse, Cousinet asks Father Pellegrin, the village vicar, to bring the lost sheep back home.
Reflecting the filmmaker's passion for automobiles, who in his youth participated in car races, the film portrays the attempt to manufacture a new model in the Ford factory in the city of Porto.
The vassals of the Asano clan, who surrendered the castle & became wanderers, deceive the enemy and the public, wait for an opportunity to avenge their master and his family.
