- Country: Japan
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 1937-01-14
- Director: Heinosuke Gosho
- Writers: Heinosuke Gosho , Fumitaka Iwasaki , Kōgo Noda
- Language: Japanese
- Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka , Shūji Sano , Shin Tokudaiji , Reikichi Kawamura , Hideko Takamine , Fumiko Okamura , Reikô Tani , Yaeko Izumo , Chishū Ryū , Toshiaki Konoe
- Runtime: 69 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: 花籠の歌 (Japan) , Song of the Flower Basket , Песня цветочной корзины (Russian Federation) , Hana-kago no uta , Chanson d'un panier de fleurs (France, French Republic)
- Plot: Shûji Sano is a college student. Kinuyo Tanaka is the hotess at her father's restaurant, where the pork cutlets are outstanding. They want to get married, and everyone is agreeable, except for the cook, who loves Miss Tanaka.It's a pleasant romantic little movie about love among the struggling classes in pre-war Japan. There's quite a cast, including Hideko Takamine as Miss Tanaka's kid sister, and Chishû Ryû. The youngsters are very cute together, with her henpecking him a little. It's decent, if not amazing work. And for some reason, the director, Heinosuke Gosho took three years to make his next movie after this; in fact, he directed only four movies until the end of World War Two, which makes me think he had annoyed someone at the censor's office. This programmer could have offended almost no one, so I think some of his sharper works earlier in the decade got him on a list. Still, he came back in the 1950s, and by the end of his career in the 1960s, he had directed a hundred features, including some very fine ones.
- IMDB:tt0028976
Hana-kago no uta Cast · · · ALL
Heinosuke Gosho
Director
Kinuyo Tanaka
Yoko
Shūji Sano
Ono
Shin Tokudaiji
Mr. Lee
Reikichi Kawamura
Keizo
Hideko Takamine
Hamako
Fumiko Okamura
Okiku, Yoko's aunt
Reikô Tani
Tomitaro, Yoko's uncle
Yaeko Izumo
Oteru, the maid
Chishū Ryū
Nenkai Hotta
Toshiaki Konoe
Okamoto
Yasuko Tachibana
Suzue
Kenji Oyama
Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Geisha
Eiko Asami
Geisha
Setsuko Shinobu
Woman at the apartment