House of Many Pleasures (1955)
Overview
Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes the owner of "Fujimura" in the town of Hato. Eiko is a timid woman who hates Terada, a watchmaker who is obsessed with her; Tamie is a hard worker who asks for money from customers to support her mother and daughter Teruko; Tane, who dreams of the day they can be together, gives money to her lover Takeda; Machiko, an apres girl, is selective about her customers in the name of romance. They are women working in the red light district at "Fujimura."
Cast
Mariko Okada
Suzuyo
Kinuyo Tanaka
Oshige
Keiko Awaji
Eiko
Hideko Takamine
Machiko
Bokuzen Hidari
Florist
Hisaya Morishige
Denkichi Yoshida
Mitsuko Mito
Chiyoko
Kumeko Urabe
Masa
Kamatari Fujiwara
Old Man
Terumi Niki
Teruko
Yōko Katsuragi
Unnamed
Asami Kuji
Tamie
Hiroshi Tachikawa
Murai
Zeko Nakamura
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