Suzaki Paradise: Red Light
Directed byYūzō Kawashima
Written by
Produced byShizuo Sakagami
Starring
CinematographyKurataro Takamura
Edited byTadashi Nakamura
Music byRiichirō Manabe
Production
company
Distributed byNikkatsu
Release date
  • 31 July 1956 (1956-07-31)
[1][2]
Running time
81 minutes[1][2]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Suzaki Paradise: Red Light a.k.a. Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District or Suzaki Paradise: Akashingō (洲崎パラダイス 赤信号, Suzaki paradaisu akashingō) is a 1956 Japanese drama film directed by Yūzō Kawashima. It is based on a novel by Yoshiko Shibaki.[3] Director Kawashima called Suzaki Paradise: Red Light the favourite among his own films.[4]

Synopsis

A jobless young couple, Yoshiji and Tsutae, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo where she once worked as a prostitute. Tsutae talks her way into a waitress job at the small bar of Osami, where they rent a room. Osami, mother of two children, manages the shop alone after she was abandoned by her husband. Yoshiji starts working as an errand boy in a nearby soba shop, jealous of Tsutae whose direct manners attract the male customers. Fed up with Yoshiji's jealousy and self-pity, and their monetary struggles, she accepts the offer of Mr. Ochiai, a regular customer and owner of a radio store, to move into a flat he pays for her. Yoshiji's colleague Tamako, who feels sympathetic towards him, is worried about his deteriorating condition. When Tsutae returns to Yoshiji, who has started to get a grip on himself in the meantime, he is first reluctant. Together, they enter a bus, not knowing what their destination will be.

Cast

References

  1. 1 2 "洲崎パラダイス 赤信号 (Suzaki Paradise: Red Light)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 May 2009.
  2. 1 2 "洲崎パラダイス 赤信号 (Suzaki Paradise: Red Light)" (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  3. ↑ "洲崎パラダイス 赤信号 (Suzaki Paradise: Red Light)" (in Japanese). kotobank. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  4. ↑ Jacoby, Alexander (2008). Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 978-1-933330-53-2.
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