The Lights of Asakusa (1937)
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.
The Lights of AsakusaDrama
Cast
- Ken Uehara — Shichirō Yamagami
- Mieko Takamine — Reiko Kosugi
- Daijiro Natsukawa — Chōjirō Kanda
- Seiji Nishimura — Sasaki
- Yoshiko Tsubouchi — Oryū
- Kaneko Fujiwara — Yoshino
- Shin Tokudaiji — Jun Asukai
- Haruko Sugimura — Marieda Matsushima
- Reikichi Kawamura — Gunji Ōhira
- Fumiko Okamura — Kureko
- Hideo Takeda — Kōhei Handa
- Tatsuo Saitō — Kampei Fujii
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