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Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District (1956)

Directed by Yuzo Kawashima

Overview

A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job pouring sake for male customers at a small bar run by a sympathetic older woman, while Yoshigi is shunted off into a nearby noodle shop, where he gets a job delivering noodles. Tsutue charms and runs off with one of her clients. Yoshigi, ignoring the attentions of a sweet co-worker, pursues Tsutue.

Length 81 minutes

Actors

Michiyo Aratama | Yukiko Todoroki | Seizaburô Kawazu | Tatsuya Mihashi | Izumi Ashikawa | Shinsuke Maki | Noriko Katsura | Fudeko Tanaka | Kenjiro Uemura | Kyōzo Fuyuki | Shoichi Ozawa | Zenji Yamada | Akiko Kikuno | Keiko Sumida | Asako Tsuda | Ikunosuke Koizumi | Koichiro Sakai | Minoru Sato | Yoshirô Katô | Tsuchiyasu Kinohara | Tomio Aoki | Kazuko Tani | Masami Miyaji | Aomi Shiba | Toshiko Suzuki | Reiko Kuba | Midori Mori | Atsuko Katô | Hisao Murata | Isao Yoshida | Tomi Tsubaki | Shinkichi Ube | Setsuko Suzukawa | Tôru Hiranuma | Kaoru Matsumoto