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Yoshiwara (1937)

Directed by Max Ophüls

Overview

Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man.

Length 102 minutes

Actors

Pierre Richard-Willm | Sessue Hayakawa | Lucienne Le Marchand | Roland Toutain | Michiko Tanaka | André Gabriello | Camille Bert | Janine Darcey | Foun-Sen | Philippe Richard | Ky Duyen | Georges Saillard | Henry Bonvallet | Linh-Nam | Léon Arvel | Maurice Devienne | Léon Larive | Georges Paulais | Martial Rèbe