Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District (1956)
A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, 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, 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, pursues Tsutue.
- Released
- 1956-07-31
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Yūzō Kawashima, Toshiro Ide, Nobuyoshi Terada
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 from 26 votes
Cast
- Michiyo Aratama as Tsutae
- Yukiko Todoroki as Otoku
- Seizaburō Kawazu as Mr. Ochiai
- Tatsuya Mihashi as Yoshiji
- Izumi Ashikawa as Tamako
- Shinsuke Maki as Nobuo
- Noriko Katsura as Woman Applying for Housemaid
- Fudeko Tanaka as Prostitute of a Certain Age
- Kenjiro Uemura as Denshichi
- Kyōzō Fuyuki as Soba Shop Owner
- Shoichi Ozawa as Sankichi
- Zenji Yamada as Man Looks Like Carpenter
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