The Lights of Asakusa

Romance · 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.

Starring

Ken Uehara, Tadao Ikeda, Tadao Ikeda, Mieko Takamine, Tatsuo Hamada, Daijirō Natsukawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Seiji Nishimura, Yasujirō Shimazu, Yoshiko Tsubouchi, Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Director

Yasujirō Shimazu