Film
Yoshiwara
France- Director
- Max Ophüls
- Year
- 1937
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.
Top cast
Pierre Richard-Willm
Lieutenant Serge Polenoff
Sessue Hayakawa
Ysamo, Kuli
Lucienne Le Marchand
Namo
Roland Toutain
Pawlik
Michiko Tanaka
Kohana
André Gabriello
Pô
Camille Bert
Le commandant
Janine Darcey
Une geisha
Foun-Sen
Une geisha
Philippe Richard
L'attaché russe
Ky Duyen
L'agent secret
Georges Saillard
Le médecin
Henry Bonvallet
Linh-Nam
Léon Arvel
Le domestique
Maurice Devienne
L'officier russe
Léon Larive
Un marin (uncredited)
Georges Paulais
Un officier japonais
Directed by
Max Ophüls
Written by
Max Ophüls, Arnold Lipp, Wolfgang Wilhelm, J. Dapoigny
Produced by
Samuel Epstein, Herman Millakowsky
