The Lights of Asakusa

Dec 2, 1937

1h 17m

★ 5.6

Overview

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous theatre troupe, and her fellow performers try to protect her virtue in a land of vice. Meanwhile, an ageing actor wants to be a hero off stage as well as on, and the troupe matriarch Marie has to keep them all together.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Shochiku

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Cast

Shichirō Yamagami

Ken Uehara

Reiko Kosugi

Mieko Takamine

Chōjirō Kanda

Daijirō Natsukawa

Sasaki

Seiji Nishimura

Oryū

Yoshiko Tsubouchi

Yoshino

Kaneko Fujiwara

Jun Asukai

Shin Tokudaiji

Marieda Matsushima

Haruko Sugimura

Gunji Ōhira

Reikichi Kawamura

Kureko

Fumiko Okamura

Kōhei Handa

Hideo Takeda

Kampei Fujii

Tatsuo Saitō

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