Street of Shame

(1956)

★ 7.7 IMDb · 158 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1956

Runtime: 87 мин

Country: Japan

Director: Кэндзи Мидзогути

Cast: Матико Кё, 若尾文子, 木暮実千代, 三益愛子, 菅原謙次, 川上 康子, 進藤英太郎, 見明凡太朗, 田中春男, 沢村貞子

Plot

Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Five prostitutes work at Dreamland, in Tokyo's Yoshiwara district. As the Diet considers a ban on prostitution, the women's daily dramas play out. Each has dreams and motivations. Hanae is married, her husband unemployed; they have a young child. Yumeko, a widow, uses her earnings to raise and support her son, who's now old enough to work and care for her. The aging Yorie has a man who wants to marry her. Yasumi saves money diligently to pay her debt and get out; she also has a suitor who wants to marry her, but she has other plans for him. Mickey seems the most devil-may-care, until her father comes from Kobe to bring her news of her family and ask her to come home.