Susaki Paradise - Red Light District - Yuzo Kawashima (1956)

xich_lo_vn · Aug 19, 2012

Susaki Paradise - Red Light District - Yuzo Kawashima (1956)
Other Titles: Suzaki paradise - Akashingo
Year: 1956
Directed by: Yuzo Kawashima
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 81 min.
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English (embedded in file, softcoded + .idx, .sub)
More info at: Imdb
Source: DVD5, NTSC from ADC (subtitles by nanago)

Cast:
Michiyo Aratama
Yukiko Todoroki
Seizaburô Kawazu
Tatsuya Mihashi
Izumi Ashikawa
Shoichi Ozawa

Synopsis/Plot:
A jobless young couple, Yoshigi (Mihashi Tatsuya) and Tsutue (Aratama Michiyo), wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job pouring sake for male customers at a small bar run by a sympathetic older woman (Todoroki Yukiko), while Yoshigi is shunted off into a nearby noodle shop, where he gets a job delivering noodles. Tsutue charms and runs off with one of her clients. Yoshigi, ignoring the attentions of a sweet co-worker (Ashikawa Izumi), pursues Tsutue. In Susaki Paradise - Red Light District (Suzaka paradaisu: Akashingo, 1956), Kawashima’s favorite among his own films (scripted by Ide Toshiro, better known for his Naruse scenarios), people are completely without pretensions. Though the women are all more or less fallen, no one feels terrible about it in the Naruse manner. When one of them (Aratama Michiyo) has the chance for a bit more money with another man, she simply (as she is - no luggage) climbs on the back of his motorbike and, with a big smile and a wave, off she goes. No one feels particularly bad about betraying trust or stealing a bit of cash either, and the man who eventually does return the stolen money is seen as something of a wimp.

- Donald Richie, A Hundred Years of Japanese Film

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