House of Many Pleasures (1955)
Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes the owner of "Fujimura" in the town of Hato. Eiko is a timid woman who hates Terada, a watchmaker who is obsessed with her; Tamie is a hard worker who asks for money from customers to support her mother and daughter Teruko; Tane, who dreams of the day they can be together, gives money to her lover Takeda; Machiko, an apres girl, is selective about her customers in the name of romance. They are women working in the red light district at "Fujimura."
Director:
Seiji Hisamatsu
Writer:
Toshio Yasumi
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Mariko Okada as Suzuyo |
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Kinuyo Tanaka as Oshige |
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Keiko Awaji as Eiko |
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Hideko Takamine as Machiko |
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Bokuzen Hidari as Florist |
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Hisaya Morishige as Denkichi Yoshida |
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Mitsuko Mito as Chiyoko |
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Kumeko Urabe as Masa |
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Kamatari Fujiwara as Old Man |
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Terumi Niki as Teruko |
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Yōko Katsuragi as Unnamed |
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Asami Kuji as Tamie |
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Hiroshi Tachikawa as Murai |
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Zeko Nakamura as Unnamed |
| Directing | Seiji Hisamatsu | Director |
| Production | Reiji Miwa | Producer |
| Production | Kazuo Takimura | Producer |
| Writing | Toshio Yasumi | Screenplay |
| Sound | Noboru Nishio | Sound Recordist |
| Lighting | Chihiro Imaizumi | Lighting Supervisor |
| Writing | Kafu Nagai | Original Story |
| Sound | Ikuma Dan | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Michio Takahashi | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Masao Tamai | Director of Photography |