A young girl searches for her long-lost brother in postwar Tokyo, clinging to hope and music amid the rubble of a broken Japan. Along the way, she touches the hearts of those around her with her resilience and song.
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Hibari Misora as Mitsuko Tanaka
Ichirō Sugai as Osamu Kachigawa
Keiko Tsushima as Kachigawa Kachigawa
Yasumi Hara as Kenzo Tanaka
Yoshito Yamaji as Yasuda
Takashi Kanda as Yamaguchi
Hikari Mizushima as Daitsuma Yoshiko
Ichirō Shimizu as Cabaret Manager
Shirō Ōsaka as Matsu-chan
Toru Nishikawa Director of Photography
Nagatoshi Kiyoshima Screenplay
Miyoji Ieki Director
Toshihiko Takeda Screenstory
Takashi Koide Producer
Yoshi Tashiro Music
Kanashiki kuchibue Trailer
Sorrowful Whistle Trailer
The Sad Whistle Trailer
Japan 24 October 1949
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1949:
09 January 1949
Familiar radio voice Ben Grauer leads the viewer on a behind the scenes tour of the National Broadcasting Company studios -- both radio and television -- in Rockefeller Center and Hollywood.
07 February 1949
Down on their luck, a couple rent out their ship to a mysterious man looking for treasure he'd hidden during the war.
22 April 1949
Mobster Thomas Nagle and his gang take over a ship to use running guns and counterfeit money into Lisbon.
11 October 1949
A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a talented singer.
01 January 1949
The plot takes place during the Civil War in Greece, and it shows the fight of communist partisans, against the pro-Western, monarchist government.
01 January 1949
Filmed record of a burlesque show, with Sunny Knight ("The Golden Girl of the Golden West") as the headliner.
05 May 1949
In this remake of and using stock-footage from 1941's "Arizona Cyclone," Tex is a daredevil freight-line driver who, with the aid of his pals Smokey and Deuce, wipes out the crooked rival line, and has enough time left over, from this shorts' twenty-six minutes , to toss in four songs.
05 October 1949
The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as the newfangled motor car.
14 September 1949
After claim jumper Sanders kills a miner, he changes clothes with Perry. In pursuit, the Marshal kills Perry claiming he was the murderer.
20 December 1949
Not quite as memorable as his previous Riders in the Sky, Gene Autry's Sons of New Mexico is still well up to the star's standard.
15 June 1949
It took a lot of courage to set up a new production company devoted to "B" westerns in 1949, a year when the genre was showing signs of winding down.
31 August 1949
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died.
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