Overview

Sweat (1929) is a slapstick riff on tendency-film themes, as a bored young millionaire has his clothes stolen by a tramp; dressed in the tramp’s clothes, he has to accept work as a labourer. As the hero ends up building the mausoleum he had himself commissioned.

Top Cast

Kōji Shima

Heizaemon Kitayama

Y

Yasushi Yoshii

Genbei

Kōju Murata

Senta

Kunio Tamura

Chorotake

Etsuji Oki

Kinzo

Hisako Takihana

Oshizu

M

Mitsu Kanbe

Worker

H

Heitaro Doi

M

Moku Akaboshi