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Yoshiwara is a french film of genre Drama directed by Max Ophüls with Pierre Richard-Willm
Yoshiwara (1937)
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Add to a movie listLength 1h42
Directed by Max Ophüls
OriginFrance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Rating64%
Yoshiwara is a 1937 French drama film directed by Max Ophüls and starring Pierre Richard-Willm, Sessue Hayakawa and Michiko Tanaka. It is based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra. The film is set in the 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.
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Yoshiwara est le quartier réservé de Tokyo, où les geishas exercent leur métier. Afin de sauver leur patrimoine familial en danger, les parents de Kohana envoient celle-ci se prostituer. Là, elle fait la connaissance de plusieurs personnages, dont le lieutenant russe Serge Polenoff et le coolie Isamo. La rivalité amoureuse des deux hommes va finir en drame.Actors
Pierre Richard-Willm
(Lieutenant Serge Polenoff)
Sessue Hayakawa
(Ysamo, Kuli)
Roland Toutain
(Pawlik)
Lucienne Le Marchand
(Namo)
André Gabriello
(Pô)
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