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.
Director:
Yasujirō Shimazu
Writer:
Tadao Ikeda
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Ken Uehara as Shichirō Yamagami |
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Mieko Takamine as Reiko Kosugi |
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Daijiro Natsukawa as Chōjirō Kanda |
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Seiji Nishimura as Sasaki |
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Yoshiko Tsubouchi as Oryū |
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Kaneko Fujiwara as Yoshino |
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Shin Tokudaiji as Jun Asukai |
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Haruko Sugimura as Marieda Matsushima |
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Reikichi Kawamura as Gunji Ōhira |
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Fumiko Okamura as Kureko |
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Hideo Takeda as Kōhei Handa |
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Tatsuo Saitō as Kampei Fujii |
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Chishū Ryū as Shin'ichi Katori |
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Akio Isono as Senkichi |
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Shotaro Akagi as Fukumatsu |
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Shinichi Himori as Futokō |
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Toshiaki Konoe as Nimura |
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Hikaru Yamanouchi as Arakawa |
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Kōichi Itō as Sakuragi |
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Tokuji Kobayashi as Perfumer |
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Kimiyo Ōtsuka as dancer in 'Carmen' |
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Mitsuko Higashiyama as dancer in 'Carmen' |
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Masami Morikawa as dancer in 'Carmen' |
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Yaeko Izumo as dancer in 'Carmen' |
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Kazuko Komaki as dancer in 'Carmen' |
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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 |
