Flunky, Work Hard!
1931 · Movie · 29 min · ★ 6.8
Mikio Naruse’s earliest available film, FLUNKY, WORK HARD is the rare work by the director not to center around female characters. It is a charming, breezy short concerning an impoverished insurance salesman and his scrappy son, whose fisticuffs with the other boys of their village put his father’s livelihood in jeopardy
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Details
- Original title
- 腰弁頑張れ
- Years
- 1931
- Release date
- 1931-08-08
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 29 min
- TMDB rating
- 6.8/10 (21 votes)
Cast & crew
Isamu Yamaguchi
as Okabe
- SK
Seiichi Katô
Tokio Seki
as Nakamura
Tomoko Naniwa
as Okabe's wife
Hideo Sugawara
- SA
Shizue Akiyama
as Toda's wife
Directed by Mikio Naruse