
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.
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Cast

Ken Uehara
Shichirō Yamagami

Mieko Takamine
Reiko Kosugi

Daijirō Natsukawa
Chōjirō Kanda

Seiji Nishimura
Sasaki

Yoshiko Tsubouchi
Oryū
Kaneko Fujiwara
Yoshino

Shin Tokudaiji
Jun Asukai

Haruko Sugimura
Marieda Matsushima

Reikichi Kawamura
Gunji Ōhira

Fumiko Okamura
Kureko

Hideo Takeda
Kōhei Handa

Tatsuo Saitō
Kampei Fujii
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