The Lights of Asakusa
Release Date: 1937-12-02
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.
Rating: 5.6 / 10
Cast
Ken Uehara
as Shichirō Yamagami
Mieko Takamine
as Reiko Kosugi
Daijirō Natsukawa
as Chōjirō Kanda
Seiji Nishimura
as Sasaki
Yoshiko Tsubouchi
as Oryū
Crew
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Yasujirō Shimazu - Director
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Tatsuo Hamada - Art Direction
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Keisuke Kinoshita - Assistant Director
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Kozaburo Yoshimura - Editor
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Toshio Ubukata - Director of Photography
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