Street of Shame ( Akasen chitai )

Street of Shame (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Akasen chitai
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
82 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1956 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Kenji Mizoguchi

Written By:
Masashige Narusawa
Yoshiko Shibaki

Actors:
Machiko Kyô ..... Mickey
Aiko Mimasu ..... Yumeko
Ayako Wakao ..... Yasumi
Michiyo Kogure ..... Hanae
Kumeko Urabe ..... Otane
Yasuko Kawakami ..... Shizuko
Hiroko Machida ..... Yorie
Eitarô Shindô ..... Kurazô Taya
Sadako Sawamura ..... Tatsuko Taya
Toranosuke Ogawa ..... Mickey's Father
Bontarô Miyake ..... Nightwatch
Daisuke Katô ..... President of Brothel Owners' Association
Kenji Sahara

Synopsis:

Kenji Mizoguchi's final film was on one of his favorite subjects: prostitutes. After a spate of universally lauded period pieces, Mizoguchi returned to the socially conscious dramas that he made famous in the 1930s. Here, as in Osaka Elegy (1936), he offered a scathing critique of society's hypocrisies and exploitative treatment of women, without the sort of transcendence seen in Life of Oharu (1952). This gritty drama of six working girls in one brothel in Tokyo's Yoshiwara red-light district explores how the women came to work in such a place -- trying to pay for their children's education, trying to bail their fathers out of prison, trying to support their out-of-work husbands -- and how they fight to maintain their dignity in spite of the degradations of their profession. Machiko Kyo gives a remarkable performance as Mickey, a cynical hooker with a heart of stone, who shames and then cruelly propositions her own father, while Aiko Mimasu plays the aging Yumeko, who is emotionally shattered after her son rejects her. This film was reportedly instrumental in the outlawing of prostitution in Japan.

Modern Japan story following the lives of four prostitutes working in the ill-fame Yoshiwara, Tokyo's gay quarter.

The personal tales of various whores who occupy a Japanese whorehouse.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 06 October, 2009.

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