MOVIE

Yoshiwara

Name: Yoshiwara
Director: Max Ophüls
Genre: Romance, Drama
Released: 1937-06-23
Cast: Pierre Richard-Willm, Sessue Hayakawa, Lucienne Le Marchand, Roland Toutain, Michiko Tanaka

Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man.

Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love trian… + more