This Greedy Old Skin

Sep 18, 1960

1h 48m

★ 0.0

Overview

A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers, including her own son, who makes a meagre living stripping taxicabs.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

TOHO

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Cast

Oshika

Aiko Mimasu

Kanta

Tadao Takashima

Hatsue

Mitsuko Kusabue

Kinu

Reiko Dan

Kumakichi

Masayuki Mori

Hikohachi Mukoyama

Hisaya Morishige

Masukin

Kyū Sazanka

Daisuke Katō

Truck driver

Ikio Sawamura

Otaka

Kyōko Anzai

Taiko

Chinatsu Nakayama

Osaki

Hisako Hara

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