City Lights
You can see now? Yes, I can see now.
A tramp (Charles Chaplin) meets a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill) who mistakes him for a rich man. He also meets an eccentric millionaire,whom he saves from suicide in a moment of drunken depression. The millionaire is expansive and treats Charlie lavishly when drunk, but forgets knowing him when he becomes sober.
A smitten Charlie sets out to earn the money to pay for the girl's eye operation. Among other things, he tries boxing but ends up without any money. Charlie meets the millionaire again, who is happily drunk and willing to give Charlie cash for the girl's eye surgery. The tramp manages to play the money in the girl's hand before being imprisoned for robbing the millionaire – once again sober and forgetful.
Months later he is released, and by chance passes the elegant flower shop in which the now-cured flower girl is established, always hoping to meet her mysterious patron whom she supposes to be rich and handsome. The girl offers the tramp a flower and a coin and takes hold of his hand to place the coin in it. Feeling him, she realizes who he is.
Cast:
- (Akira Kurosawa ... Director)
- Kamatari Fujiwara ... Tazaemon
- Daisuke Katô ... Inokichi, Ushitora's rotund brother
- Seizaburô Kawazu ... Seibei, brothel operator
- Toshirô Mifune ... Sanjuro Kuwabatake / The Samurai
- Tatsuya Nakadai ... Unosuke, gunfighter
- Yosuke Natsuki ... Kohei's Son
- Takashi Shimura ... Tokuemon, sake brewer
- Eijirô Tôno ... Gonji, tavern keeper
- Hiroshi Tachikawa ... Yoichiro
- Yôko Tsukasa ... Nui
- Atsushi Watanabe ... The Cooper (Coffin-Maker)
- Isuzu Yamada ... Orin
- Akio Kusama - Ushitora Follower
- Akira Tani - Kame
- Atsushi Watanabe - The Cooper (Coffin-Maker)
- Daisuke Katô - Inokichi, Ushitora's rotund brother
- Eijirô Tôno - Gonji, tavern keeper
- Fuminori Ôhashi - Second Samurai
- Fumio Kogushi - Ushitora Follower
- Fumiyoshi Kamagaya - Seibei Follower
- Gen Shimizu - Magotaro
- Haruya Sakamoto - Ushitora Follower
- Hideyo Amamoto - Yahachi
- Hiromi Mineoka - Woman at Seibei's house
- Hiroshi Tachikawa - Yoichiro
- Hiroshi Takagi - Ushitora Follower
- Hiroshi Yoseyama - Farmer
- Ichirô Chiba - Second Foot Soldier
- Ichirô Nakatani - First Samurai
- Ikio Sawamura - Hansuke
- Isuzu Yamada - Orin
- Jerry Fujio - Roku, samurai whose arm is cut
- Jun Ôtomo - Seibei Follower
- Jun'ichirô Mukai - Seibei Follower
- Kô Nishimura - Kuma
- Kamatari Fujiwara - Tazaemon
- Kyû Sazanka - Ushitora
- Michiko Kawa - Woman at Seibei's house
- Nadao Kirino - Seibei Follower
- Namigoro Rashomon - Kannuki the giant
- Naoya Kusakawa - Seibei Follower
- Noriko Honma - Farmer's ex-wife
- Rinsaku Ogata - Seibei Follower
- Ryusuke Nishio - Seibei Follower
- Sachio Sakai - First Foot Soldier
- Seizaburô Kawazu - Seibei, brothel operator
- Senkichi Ômura - Traveler
- Shôichi Hirose - Ushitora Follower
- Shôji Ôki - Sukeju
- Shin Ôtomo - Kumosuke
- Shinpei Takagi - Ushitora Follower
- Susumu Fujita - Homma, instructor who skips town
- Takashi Shimura - Tokuemon, sake brewer
- Takeshi Katô - Ronin Kobuhachi
- Takuzô (Jirô) Kumagai -
- Tatsuya Nakadai - Unosuke, gunfighter
- Toshirô Mifune - Sanjuro Kuwabatake / The Samurai
- Yôko Tsukasa - Nui
- Yasuzô Ogawa - Ushitora Follower
- Yoko Terui - Woman at Seibei's house
- Yoshio Tsuchiya - Kohei
- Yosuke Natsuki - Kohei's Son
- Yutaka Sada - Matsukichi
Soundtrack:
"Flower Girl Theme" (1931) (uncredited) Music by José Padilla
"The Star Spangled Banner" (uncredited) Music by John Stafford Smith
"How Dry I Am" (uncredited) Traditional
"Beautiful Wonderful Eyes" (1931) (uncredited) Music by Charles Chaplin
"Tomorrow the Sun Will Shine" (1931) (uncredited) Music by Charles Chaplin
"Happy Romance" (1931) (uncredited) Music by Charles Chaplin
"Promenade" (1931) (uncredited) Music by Charles Chaplin
"Orientale" (1931) (uncredited) Music by Charles Chaplin
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