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Yoshiwara

  • June 1937
  • 1hr

    42mins

  • Romance
  • Drama
  • Directed by

    Max Ophüls,

    Starring

    Pierre Richard-Willm,

    Sessue Hayakawa,

    Lucienne Le Marchand,

    Roland Toutain

    ...

    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.