Roppa Furukawa is the spoiled son of a wealthy brewer. His father wants him to grow up, and arranges an engagement to the opera-singing daughter of a baron. Roppa, however, has already fallen in love with Aiko Mieko, a waitress in a udon shop. They elope, and then she goes back to work, while Roppa sulks over not having unlimited wealth any more.
It's a simply constructed comedy, a vehicle for Roppa, whose character here is somewhere on the Grady Sutton-Lloyd Hamilton continuum. Indeed, the father's role, were it an American production, would have suited Walter Connolly or Charles Coburn; such comedies were common to all branches of cinema in the 1930s.
Roppa came from an interesting background: he was a younger son of a real baron who was head of Tokyo Imperial University. He became an actor, specializing in comic roles, and was very popular, appearing in more than 100 movies before his death in 1961 at the age of 57.
I don't find this movie excellent, but Aiko Mieko brings a good deal to her role,and becomes the center of the show. Roppa offers a nice bit at a jazz-loving, indolent man who finds himself embarrassed into leading a marching band. It's certainly worth spending its 66 minutes watching.
