Street of Shame (1956)
Akasen chitai
Men were their prey! Beauty was their lure!
86 min
Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
- Release date
- March 18, 1956
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Music
- Toshirō Mayuzumi
Where to watch
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Cast
- Machiko Kyô as Mickey
- Ayako Wakao as Yasumi
- Michiyo Kogure as Hanae
- Aiko Mimasu as Yumeko
- Kenji Sugawara as Eiko
- Yasuko Kawakami as Shizuko
- Eitarō Shindō as Kurazô Taya
- Haruo Tanaka as Osaka Salesman
- Sadako Sawamura as Tatsuko Taya
- Daisuke Katō as Mr. Nomura
- Hisao Toake as Shiomi
- Jun Tatara as Yumeko's Client
- Osamu Maruyama as Sato Yasukichi
- Hiroko Machida as Yorie
- Kumeko Urabe as Otane
- Fujio Harumoto as Aoki
- Ken'ichi Miyajima as Hanae's Client
- Toranosuke Ogawa as Mickey's Father
- Kokuten Kōdō as Kadowaki Keisaku
- Eiko Miyoshi as Kadowaki Saku
- Bontarō Miake as Officer Nonomura
Crew
- Kenji Mizoguchi · Director
- Masashige Narusawa · Writer
- Yoshiko Shibaki · Writer
- Masaichi Nagata · Producer
- Toshirō Mayuzumi · Composer
- Kazuo Miyagawa · Cinematographer
- Kanji Suganuma · Editor
- Hisao Ichikawa · Production designer
- Hiroshi Mizutani · Production designer