Film Forum

洲崎パラダイス　赤信号 (Suzaki Paradaisu: Akashingô)

Director Yûzô Kawashima
Cast Michiyo Aratama, Yukkiko Todoroki, Seizaburô Kawazu, Tatsuya Mihashi
Screenplay Toshirô Ide, Yoshiko Shibaki, Nobuyoshi Terada | Cinematography Kuratarô Takamura
1956 | Japan | DCP | approx. 81 min. | In Japanese with English subtitles

Down to their last cigarettes, Tatsuya Mihashi (the weasel in High and Low) and Michiyo Aratama (Sword of Doom) get off the bus to become a waitress and a noodle deliverer on the pleasure island, but things speedily get complicated, in an ironic/tragicomic slice of the lower side of life from Kawashima (Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate).

SUZAKI PARADISE © 1956 NIKKATSU Corporation.