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.
Max Ophüls | Director |
Arnold Lipp | Screenplay |
Wolfgang Wilhelm | Screenplay |
J. Dapoigny | Screenplay |
Samuel Epstein | Producer |
Max Ophüls | Screenplay |
Eugen Schüfftan | Director of Photography |
Pierre Méguérian | Editor |
Paul Dessau | Original Music Composer |
Herman Millakowsky | Producer |