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.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Ken Uehara, Mieko Takamine, Daijirō Natsukawa, Seiji Nishimura, Yoshiko Tsubouchi, Kaneko Fujiwara, Shin Tokudaiji, Haruko Sugimura, Reikichi Kawamura, Fumiko Okamura, Hideo Takeda, Tatsuo Saitō, Chishū Ryū
Crew: Kōzaburō Yoshimura (Editor), Tatsuo Hamada (Art Direction), Keisuke Kinoshita (Assistant Director), Yasujirō Shimazu (Director), Toshio Ubukata (Director of Photography)