The Lights of Asakusa

(1937)

★ 6 IMDb · 6 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1937

Runtime: 76 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 島津保次郎

Cast: Кэн Уэхара, 高峰三枝子, 夏川大二郎, 西村青児, 坪内美子, Kaneko Fujiwara, 徳大寺伸, 杉村春子, 河村黎吉, 岡村文子

Plot

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.