Heinosuke Gosho was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who directed Japan's first successful sound film, The Neighbor's Wife and Mine, in 1931. His films are mostly associated with the shōshimin-eiga genre. Among his most noted works are Where Chimneys Are Seen, An Inn at Osaka, Takekurabe and Yellow Crow.
Heinosuke Gosho in 1951
Where Chimneys Are Seen , also titled Four Chimneys, is a 1953 Japanese comedy-drama film directed by Heinosuke Gosho. Based on the novel Mujaki na hitobito by Rinzō Shiina, Where Chimneys Are Seen is regarded as one of Gosho's most important and well-known films and a typical example of the shōshimin-eiga genre.
Where Chimneys Are Seen