Akasen čitai
Directed by:
Kenji MizoguchiScreenplay:
成沢昌茂Cinematography:
Kazuo MiyagawaComposer:
Toshirô MayuzumiCast:
Machiko Kyō, Ayako Wakao, Daisuke Katō, 進藤英太郎, 三好栄子, 浦辺粂子, Michiyo Kogure, Sadako Sawamura, Hiroko Machida, Ken'ichi Miyajima, Osamu Maruyama, Kokuten KôdôPlots(1)
Akasen chitai, is Mizoguchi's final masterpiece and one of the greatest last films ever made, depicting the goings-on in a Tokyo brothel carrying the name "Dreamland", where dreams are nevertheless shattered beneath the weight of financial necessity and all questions of conscience - a last testament which inspired the great French critic Jean Douchet to proclaim: "For me, along with Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux and Renoir's La Règle du jeu, the greatest film in the history of the cinema". (Eureka Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Machiko Kyō
Japan
Best movies:
Rashomon (1950)
Tales of Ugetsu (1953)
The Face of Another (1966)
Ayako Wakao
Japan
Best movies:
Red Angel (1966)
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
A Cheerful Girl (1957)
Daisuke Katō
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Yojimbo (1961)
進藤英太郎
Japan
Best movies:
Revenge (1964)
Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
Drunken Angel (1948)
三好栄子
Japan
Best movies:
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Living (1952)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
浦辺粂子
Japan
Best movies:
Early Spring (1956)
Living (1952)
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
Michiyo Kogure
Japan
Best movies:
Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island (1956)
Drunken Angel (1948)
Samurai 2: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)
Sadako Sawamura
Japan
Best movies:
A Fugitive from the Past (1965)
Late Autumn (1960)
Good Morning (1959)
Hiroko Machida
Japan
Best movies:
The Silent Duel (1949)
A Cheerful Girl (1957)
Street of Shame (1956)
Ken'ichi Miyajima
Japan
Best movies:
Floating Weeds (1959)
Street of Shame (1956)
Osamu Maruyama
Japan
Best movies:
Floating Weeds (1959)
Street of Shame (1956)
Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955)
Kokuten Kôdô
Japan
Best movies:
Seven Samurai (1954)
Early Summer (1951)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)