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 Shimazu | Director |
Kōzaburō Yoshimura | Editor |
Tatsuo Hamada | Art Direction |
Keisuke Kinoshita | Assistant Director |
Toshio Ubukata | Director of Photography |
Hiroshi Hamamoto | Original Story |
Tadao Ikeda | Screenplay |
Takeo Dobashi | Sound Recordist |
Saburo Omura | Sound Recordist |
Hikaru Saotome | Original Music Composer |