Yoshiwara (film)

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Yoshiwara
Directed by Max Ophüls
Produced by Samuel Epstein
Herman Millakowsky
Written by Maurice Dekobra (novel)
Arnold Lipp
Wolfgang Wilhelm
Max Ophüls
Starring Pierre Richard-Willm
Sessue Hayakawa
Michiko Tanaka
Roland Toutain
Music by Paul Dessau
Cinematography Eugen Schüfftan
Editing by Pierre Méguérian
Studio Milo Film
Distributed by Compagnie Cinématographique de France
Release dates 22 October 1937
Running time 102 minutes
Country France
Language French
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.[1]

Reception

The film was Ophüls' greatest pre-war French financial success.[2] Yoshiwara proved controversial in Japan where the government objected to the depiction of Japanese brothels and banned it. There was a negative reaction against the two Japanese actors who had starred in the film, and they were labelled as traitors.[3]

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Seigle p.10-11
  2. ↑ Bacher p.37
  3. ↑ Seigle p.10-11

Bibliography

  • Bacher, Lutz. Max Ophuls in the Hollywood Studios. Rutgers University Press, 1996.
  • Seigle, Cecilia Segawa. Yoshiwara: The Glittering World of the Japanese Courtesan. University of Hawaii Press, 1993.

External links

Films directed by Max Ophüls


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