The Lights of Asakusa

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.

• Yasujirō ShimazuDirector
• Tadao IkedaScreenplay
• Hikaru SaotomeOriginal Music Composer

• Ken UeharaShichirō Yamagami
• Mieko TakamineReiko Kosugi
• Daijiro NatsukawaChōjirō Kanda
• Seiji NishimuraSasaki
• Yoshiko TsubouchiOryū
• Kaneko FujiwaraYoshino
• Shin TokudaijiJun Asukai
• Haruko SugimuraMarieda Matsushima
• Reikichi KawamuraGunji Ōhira
• Fumiko OkamuraKureko
• Hideo TakedaKōhei Handa
• Tatsuo SaitōKampei Fujii