Drama · Japan · 1954 · 1h 51m

Ditch

どぶ

Director

Cast

Nobuko Otowa as Tsuru Jūkichi Uno as Taiji Tonoyama as So Yamamura as Ichirō Sugai as Kamatari Fujiwara as

Crew

Takeo Itō — Director of Photography Zenju Imaizumi — Editor Akira Ifukube — Original Music Composer Kaneto Shindō — Screenplay Gorō Tanada — Screenplay

Synopsis

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house.

Mood & Themes

post war japan

Key Collaborators

Kaneto Shindō Director Takeo Itō Director of Photography Zenju Imaizumi Editor Akira Ifukube Original Music Composer Kaneto Shindō Screenplay Gorō Tanada Screenplay

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