Yoshiwara

APPROPIATE

1937 / 102min.

Rating8

Genres

Romance

Drama

Synopsis

Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in the Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man.

Directors

Actors

Sessue Hayakawa

Janine Darcey

Roland Toutain

Michiko Tanaka

André Gabriello

Lucienne Le Marchand

Georges Paulais

Camille Bert

Léon Arvel

Léon Larive

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