A young boy, separated from his carpenter father in Kudan, follows Tashiro to his Tokyo tenement, where the boy's father had arrived from Chigasaki that morning. Despite Tashiro's willingness to help, the tenement's head, Tamekichi, refuses to let the boy stay. The boy is instead passed on to their neighbor, Tane, a widowed woman who is initially reluctant to care for him.
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
In Tokyo, a young boy finds himself alone and adrift, until he follows a stranger named Tashiro to a tenement complex, sparking a thrilling mystery to uncover the truth about his missing carpenter father.