Set in Japan immediately after WWII, acclaimed director Masaki Kobayashi's noir-ish drama unfolds in the shanty town filled with bars and brothels that surrounds an American Naval Air Facility in Kanagawa prefecture.
Naïve new arrival Nishida (Fumio Watanabe), a student, is immediately taken advantage of by the ruthless landlord (Isuzu Yamada) who charges exorbitant rent for a cramped, squalid apartment and misses no opportunity to gossip maliciously about her tenants. After settling in, Nishida gets to know some of his neighbors, including self-proclaimed communist Kin (Seiji Miyaguchi) and Shizuko (Ineko Arima), an innocent waitress whose beauty is her do...
Released:
1957
Rated:
NR
Length:
114 mins