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Yoshiwara
Yoshiwara
6.9
/10
38 Ratings

YOSHIWARA

Directed by Max Ophüls
France, 1937
Drama, Romance

Synopsis

Love triangle set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century, about a girl sold as a geisha to support her impoverished aristocratic family, who soon finds herself with two protectors, a Russian naval officer and a rickshaw man.

Synopsis

Love triangle set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century, about a girl sold as a geisha to support her impoverished aristocratic family, who soon finds herself with two protectors, a Russian naval officer and a rickshaw man.