
Yoshiwara
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1hr
42mins
Directed by
Max Ophüls,
Starring
Pierre Richard-Willm,
Sessue Hayakawa,
Lucienne Le Marchand,
Roland Toutain
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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.