The Lights of Asakusa

The Lights of Asakusa (1937)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1937-12-02
  • User Rating: 6/10 from 4 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 17min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: Shochiku
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Yasujirō Shimazu
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Summary

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.

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  • Ken Uehara

    as Shichirō Yamagami

  • Mieko Takamine

    as Reiko Kosugi

  • Daijirō Natsukawa

    as Chōjirō Kanda

  • Seiji Nishimura

    as Sasaki

  • Yoshiko Tsubouchi

    as Oryū

  • Kaneko Fujiwara

    as Yoshino

  • Shin Tokudaiji

    as Jun Asukai

  • Haruko Sugimura

    as Marieda Matsushima

  • Reikichi Kawamura

    as Gunji Ōhira

  • Fumiko Okamura

    as Kureko

  • Hideo Takeda

    as Kōhei Handa

  • Tatsuo Saitō

    as Kampei Fujii

  • Chishū Ryū

    as Shin'ichi Katori

  • Akio Isono

    as Senkichi

  • Shotaro Akagi

    as Fukumatsu

  • Shinichi Himori

    as Futokō

  • Toshiaki Konoe

    as Nimura

  • Hikaru Yamanouchi

    as Arakawa

  • Kōichi Itō

    as Sakuragi

  • Tokuji Kobayashi

    as Perfumer

  • Kimiyo Ōtsuka

    as dancer in 'Carmen'

  • Mitsuko Higashiyama

    as dancer in 'Carmen'

  • Masami Morikawa

    as dancer in 'Carmen'

  • Yaeko Izumo

    as dancer in 'Carmen'

  • Kazuko Komaki

    as dancer in 'Carmen'

  • Kanji Kawara

    as
Art Tatsuo Hamada Art Direction
Directing Keisuke Kinoshita Assistant Director
Directing Yasujirō Shimazu Director
Editing Kōzaburō Yoshimura Editor
Camera Toshio Ubukata Director of Photography
Sound Saburo Omura Sound Recordist
Sound Hikaru Saotome Original Music Composer
Sound Takeo Dobashi Sound Recordist
Writing Hiroshi Hamamoto Original Story
Sound Hikaru Saotome Music Arranger
Writing Tadao Ikeda Screenplay

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