Tokyo Chorus (東京の合唱, Tōkyō no kōrasu) is a 1931 Japanese silent film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Tokihiko Okada and Emiko Yagumo.
It was based on various stories in the Shoshimin-gai (Middle Class Avenue) series and shares influences with King Vidor's The Crowd.
The story starts with a group of young men attending school drills under the direction of Mr. Omura (Tatsuo Saitō).
A co-worker named Rou-Shain Yamada (Takeshi Sakamoto) is laid off because his last two clients died shortly after signing their policies.
His wife Tsuma Sugako (Emiko Yagumo) returns from the market and tries to calm the boy while Choujo tells her what happened.
He sees his son playing with a group of boys and their bikes only to be told that Miyoko is sick with "childhood diarrhea".
One day, Sugako, Tsuma, Mr. and Mrs Omura (Choko Iida) are cooking big plates of curry rice.
As they eat, a letter arrives from the Ministry of Education; it is a notification of a job for Okajima, teaching English in a small rural town at a girls school.