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.
Unfortunately the movie The Lights of Asakusa is not yet available on HBO Max.
Directing | Yasujirō Shimazu | Director |
Art | Tatsuo Hamada | Art Direction |
Directing | Keisuke Kinoshita | Assistant Director |
Editing | Kōzaburō Yoshimura | Editor |
Camera | Toshio Ubukata | Director of Photography |
Sound | Saburo Omura | Sound Recordist |
Writing | Tadao Ikeda | Screenplay |
Sound | Hikaru Saotome | Music Arranger |
Writing | Hiroshi Hamamoto | Original Story |
Sound | Hikaru Saotome | Original Music Composer |
Sound | Takeo Dobashi | Sound Recordist |