An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953 · Movie · 130 min. · Japan
A three-part film based on short stories about the struggles of women in the early Meiji era. Part 1 tells of a young woman returning home for the first time after her arranged marriage. Parental pleasure at seeing her vanishes when it turns out she hates the marriage and wants to come home for good. In Part 2, an over-worked and poorly-paid servant in the house of a rich merchant family, needs to borrow from her stingy employer two yen for her poor relatives. Part 3 is centered around a Yoshiwara prostitute who has a patron she is in love with, but is also a big favorite with local gangsters. In addition, she has a creepy, stalker-ish ex-client, living in poverty with his wife and a young son.
Direction Tadashi Imai
Cast Ken Mitsuda · Yatsuko Tan'ami · Akiko Tamura · Hiro Kumon · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Susumu Tatsuoka · Teruko Nagaoka · Noboru Nakaya · Yoshiko Kuga · Nobuo Nakamura · Michiko Araki · Shiro Inui · Kazuo Kitamura · Hisao Toake · Yoshie Minami · Chikage Awashima · Sô Yamamura · Seiji Miyaguchi · Haruko Sugimura · Maiko Hojo
Soundtrack Ikuma Dan
Screenplay Toshirô Ide · Yôko Mizuki · Ichiyo Higuchi
Cinematography Shunichiro Nakao
Original title Nigorie
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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