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Running Time
1 hour, 27 minutes
Country Japan
Studio Daiei
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Other Titles
• Akasen chitai
• Street of Shame (1959)
• Die Straße der Schande (1956)
• Red Light District
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Genre: Drama, Prostitution, Melodrama, Urban, Love
Tagline: Men were their prey! Beauty was their lure!
Plot: In his last film, director Kenji Mizoguchi once again explores the lives of the courtesans of Tokyo's Yoshiwara pleasure district but forgoes his customary lyricism, taking a more harshly realistic view than in earlier films as SISTERS OF THE GION. Set in a brothel ironically dubbed Dreamland, the film allows five of its occupants to unfold their lives. Yumeko (Aiko Mimasu), a middle-aged widow supporting a son, remembers an era when the profession of courtesan was esteemed, requiring skills in music and flower arrangement. The cynical Mickey (Machiko Kyô) has entered the life as a form of rebellion against a wealthy businessman father whose philandering scarred her mother. Yorie (Hiroki Machida) is a simple country girl, working to support aged parents while dreaming of marriage. Yasumi (Ayako Wakao), a victim of her father's embezzlement, moonlights as a moneylender, to achieve respectability with a small business. Hanae (Michiko Kogure), with a baby and an unemployed husband, simply hopes for survival. Against an audio backdrop of news reports of the Diet of Japan voting to outlaw prosititution, the women struggle for a scrap of dignity amid the bleakness of their lives. A veritable dream team of Japanese actresses gives an ensemble performance of memorable virtuosity in the
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Machiko Kyô
In the Woods, Tales of Ugetsu, The Teahouse of the August Moon | | | Michiyo Kogure
Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijôji no kettô, Yoidore tenshi, Aru eiga-kantoku no shogai | | | | |
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