Yoshiwara

1937 102 min Romance, Drama

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.

director Max Ophüls

writers Max Ophüls, Arnold Lipp, Wolfgang Wilhelm, J. Dapoigny