Street of Shame
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Director Kenji Mizoguchi Music director Toshiro Mayuzumi Duration Country Japan | 8/10 IMDb Genre Drama Producer Masaichi Nagata Language Japanese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Masashige Narusawa , Yoshiko Shibaki Release date March 18, 1956 Cast Machiko Kyô (Mickey), Aiko Mimasu (Yumeko), Ayako Wakao (Yasumi), Michiyo Kogure (Hanae), Kumeko Urabe (Otane), Yasuko Kawakami (Shizuko)Similar movies Knock Knock , Paprika , The Bridge on the River Kwai , Pulp Fiction , Se7en , Memoirs of a Geisha | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Street of shame 1956 movie trailer
Street of Shame (赤線地帯, Akasen chitai) is a 1956 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It is the personal tales of several Japanese women of different backgrounds who work together in a brothel. It was Mizoguchi's last film.
Contents
The film is based on the novel Susaki no Onna by Yoshiko Shibaki.
Plot
Five female sex workers are employed at Dreamland, a licensed brothel near the Sensōji Temple in Tokyo's Yoshiwara district. As the Diet considers a ban on prostitution, the women's daily dramas play out. Each has dreams and motivations. Hanae is married, her husband unemployed; they have a young child. Yumeko, a widow, uses her earnings to raise and support her son, who is now old enough to work and care for her. The aging Yorie has a man who wants to marry her. Yasumi saves money diligently to pay her debt and get out; she also has a suitor who wants to marry her, but she has other plans for him. Miki seems the most nonchalant, until her father comes from Kobe to bring her news of her family and ask her to come home.
Cast
The production designer was Hiroshi Mizutani.
Legacy
Red Light District: Gonna Get Out (1974) directed by Tatsumi Kumashiro is a remake of this film.
References
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