The Lights of Asakusa (1937)
Drama
Overview
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.
Cast
- Ken Uehara as Shichirō Yamagami
- Mieko Takamine as Reiko Kosugi
- Daijiro 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