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]
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| Directed by | Yūzō Kawashima |
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| Produced by | Shizuo Sakagami |
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| Cinematography | Kurataro Takamura |
| Edited by | Tadashi Nakamura |
| Music by | Riichiro Manabe |
Production company | Nikkatsu |
| Distributed by | Nikkatsu |
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Running time | 81 minutes[1][2] |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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.
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