Chance Meeting

Chance Meeting

97 mins | Drama, Romance | Jan. 15, 1958

Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is Rentaro is not amused. Just afterwards she notices that he is reading a magazine which carries her picture which he crushes and throws under his seat. One of her customers in Tokyo is a pretty girl named Kana for whom she had designed a dress which at first seems quite satisfactory. But a few days later Kana brings it back. It seems her brother thinks it terrible. But when Kana brings the dress back she meets Aya's brother, Takeshi, with whom she becomes friendly and Takeshi gives her a new dress which he smuggles out of his sister's office. When Aya finds Kana's discarded dress and misses one belonging to another customer she goes to see Kana's brother, and to her surprise finds him to be the fellow whose foot she'd stepped upon in the train...

Chance Meeting

97 mins | Drama, Romance | Jan. 15, 1958

Chance Meeting
Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is Rentaro is not amused. Just afterwards she notices that he is reading a magazine which carries her picture which he crushes and throws under his seat. One of her customers in Tokyo is a pretty girl named Kana for whom she had designed a dress which at first seems quite satisfactory. But a few days later Kana brings it back. It seems her brother thinks it terrible. But when Kana brings the dress back she meets Aya's brother, Takeshi, with whom she becomes friendly and Takeshi gives her a new dress which he smuggles out of his sister's office. When Aya finds Kana's discarded dress and misses one belonging to another customer she goes to see Kana's brother, and to her surprise finds him to be the fellow whose foot she'd stepped upon in the train...
Producers Daiei Motion Picture Co., Ltd.
Original title 有楽町で逢いましょう
Directors Koji Shima
Writers Hiroshi Miyazaki, Ryōzō Kasahara

Cast

Machiko Kyō

as Aya Koyanagi

Kenji Sugawara

as Rentaro Shinohara

Hiroshi Kawaguchi

as Takeshi Koyanagi

Hitomi Nozoe

as Kana Shinohara

Yoshirô Kitahara

as Shimizu

Michiko Ono

as Shinko

Ryūji Shinagawa

as Announcer

Satoko Minami

as Sadako Yamanaka

Junko Kano

as Fusae Shimazaki

Atsuko Kindaichi

as Miss Sekine

Chieko Naniwa

as Yone

Teruko Kishi

as Kinoshita

Tanie Kitabayashi

as Tetsu Koyanagi

Kiyoko Hirai

as Mrs. Sekine

Fujio Harumoto

as Maruyama

Kyū Sazanka

as Saburo Maeda