Japan Release: 1956
Running Time: 61 minutes

People of Tokyo, Goodbye

東京の人さようなら
[Tokyo no Hito Sayonara]

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People of Tokyo, Goodbye
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Background and Trivia

• According to director Ishiro Honda, People of Tokyo, Goodbye was made at a time when Toho was "trying everything out". Thus came the idea to build a film around Chiyoko Shimakura, a burgeoning pop star who makes her film debut here. Even though the script was his own, Honda wasn't immediately comfortable in the song-heavy format. Still, during this period, "[I] tried my best at whatever kind of thing would come my way instead of rejecting something that might not have been for me," he said. Noted in Godzilla and My Movie Life, translated in Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa (ISBN: 0819570871).