Street of Shame
Original title: Akasen chitai
Drama
⭐ 7.8 / 10(5,390)
The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel.
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Released
- 1956
- Country
- Japan
Details
Release year: 1956
Storyline
The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel.
Top credits
Directors
Cast
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Machiko Kyô — Mickey
Aiko Mimasu — Yumeko
Ayako Wakao — Yasumi
Michiyo Kogure — Hanae
Did you know
• The film was so popular with Japanese audiences upon its initial release, and so poignant in its portrayal of the lives of prostitutes that when an anti-prostitution law was passed in Japan just a few months later, some said it was a catalyst.
• Director Kenji Mizoguchi's final film. He died of leukemia only five months after its release at the age of 58.
• Italian censorship visa # 30674 delivered on 21 November 1959.
User reviews
⭐ 9/10
'we are really like social workers'.
👍 24 · 6/28/2008
⭐ 8/10
An Abstract
👍 11 · 1/5/2005
⭐ 9/10
ravishing
👍 8 · 3/5/2009
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
- Color
- Black and White
