Street of Shame(赤線地帯)
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Japan · 1956
1h 27m
Director Kenji Mizoguchi
Starring Machiko Kyō, Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao, Michiyo Kogure
Genre Drama
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Five women work as sex workers at Dreamland, a licensed brothel in Tokyo’s Yoshiwara district. The women’s daily lives and routines are underlined by Japan’s legislature considering a ban on prostitution, as the women try to maintain their dreams amidst a dismal postwar landscape.
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