Akasen chitai – Street Of Shame (1956) Criterion Collection
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Language: Japanese | Subtitle: English Included | 85min | 326.11MB | 3% Recovery
Genre: Drama | 1 win & 1 nomination
IMDb Rating: 7.9/10 (953 users)
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Language: Japanese | Subtitle: English Included | 85min | 326.11MB | 3% Recovery
Genre: Drama | 1 win & 1 nomination
IMDb Rating: 7.9/10 (953 users)
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Five prostitutes work at Dreamland, in Tokyo's Yoshiwara district. As the Diet considers a ban on prostitution, the women's daily dramas play out. Each has dreams and motivations. Hanae is married, her husband unemployed; they have a young child. Yumeko, a widow, uses her earnings to raise and support her son, who's now old enough to work and care for her. The aging Yorie has a man who wants to marry her. Yasumi saves money diligently to pay her debt and get out; she also has a suitor who wants to marry her, but she has other plans for him. Mickey seems the most devil-may-care, until her father comes from Kobe to bring her news of her family and ask her to come home.
Criterion Collection Synopsis:
For his final film, Mizoguchi brought a lifetime of experience to bear on the heartbreaking tale of a brothel full of women whose dreams are constantly being shattered by the socioeconomic realities surrounding them. Set in Tokyo’s Red Light District (the literal translation of the Japanese title), Street of Shame was so cutting, and its popularity so great, that when an antiprostitution law was passed in Japan just a few months after the film’s release, some said it was a catalyst.
Eclipse Series 13: Kenji Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women:Screenshots:
Osaka Elegy (1936)
Sisters Of The Gion (1936)
Women Of The Night (1948)
Street Of Shame (1956)
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