Walk Cheerfully

Walk Cheerfully

95 mins | Drama, Crime, Romance | March 1, 1930

Kenji is a small-time thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, and she finds out what kind of guy he really is, she leaves him "until he becomes an honest person." Kenji soon finds it's not easy to get rid of one's past.

Walk Cheerfully

95 mins | Drama, Crime, Romance | March 1, 1930

Walk Cheerfully
Kenji is a small-time thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, and she finds out what kind of guy he really is, she leaves him "until he becomes an honest person." Kenji soon finds it's not easy to get rid of one's past.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Shochiku Co., Ltd.
Original title 朗かに歩め
Directors Yasujirō Ozu
Writers Hiroshi Shimizu, Tadao Ikeda, Lex Neal

Cast

Minoru Takada

as Kenji Koyama

Hiroko Kawasaki

as Yasue Sugimoto

Satoko Date

as Chieko

Takeshi Sakamoto

as Ono, the company's president

Nobuko Matsuzono

as Yasue's sister

Kanji Kawahara

as Detective

Kenji Kimura

as Hotel manager

Teruo Môri

as Gunpei

Utako Suzuki

as The mother

Hisao Yoshitani

as Senko