Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
Directed by Yūzō Kawashima
Produced by Nikkatsu Corporation
A melancholic portrait of economic desperation and fractured romance in postwar Tokyo's red-light district, where survival and desire pull a young couple apart.
A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job pouring sake for male customers at a small bar run by a sympathetic older woman, while Yoshigi is shunted off into a nearby noodle shop, where he gets a job delivering noodles. Tsutue charms and runs off with one of her clients. Yoshigi, ignoring the attentions of a sweet co-worker, pursues Tsutue.
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