
77 minutes
12/2/1937
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.

Ken Uehara
as Shichirō Yamagami

Mieko Takamine
as Reiko Kosugi

Daijirō Natsukawa
as Chōjirō Kanda

Seiji Nishimura
as Sasaki

Yoshiko Tsubouchi
as Oryū
Kaneko Fujiwara
as Yoshino

Shin Tokudaiji
as Jun Asukai

Haruko Sugimura
as Marieda Matsushima

Reikichi Kawamura
as Gunji Ōhira

Fumiko Okamura
as Kureko

Hideo Takeda
as Kōhei Handa

Tatsuo Saitō
as Kampei Fujii

Chishū Ryū
as Shin'ichi Katori

Akio Isono
as Senkichi
Shotaro Akagi
as Fukumatsu

Shinichi Himori
as Futokō

Toshiaki Konoe
as Nimura

Hikaru Yamanouchi
as Arakawa
Kōichi Itō
as Sakuragi

Tokuji Kobayashi
as Perfumer
Kimiyo Ōtsuka
as dancer in 'Carmen'
Mitsuko Higashiyama
as dancer in 'Carmen'

Masami Morikawa
as dancer in 'Carmen'
Yaeko Izumo
as dancer in 'Carmen'
Kazuko Komaki
as dancer in 'Carmen'

Kanji Kawara