Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District (1956)
洲崎パラダイス 赤信号
A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job pouring sake for male customers at a small bar run by a sympathetic older woman, while Yoshigi is shunted off into a nearby noodle shop, where he gets a job delivering noodles. Tsutue charms and runs off with one of her clients. Yoshigi, ignoring the attentions of a sweet co-worker, pursues Tsutue.
- Date of release
- 1956-07-31
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (26)
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Yūzō Kawashima
Casting
- Michiyo Aratama — Tsutae
- Yukiko Todoroki — Otoku
- Seizaburō Kawazu — Mr. Ochiai
- Tatsuya Mihashi — Yoshiji
- Izumi Ashikawa — Tamako
- Shinsuke Maki — Nobuo
- Noriko Katsura — Woman Applying for Housemaid
- Fudeko Tanaka — Prostitute of a Certain Age
- Kenjiro Uemura — Denshichi
- Kyōzō Fuyuki — Soba Shop Owner
- Shoichi Ozawa — Sankichi
- Zenji Yamada — Man Looks Like Carpenter
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