Killing in Yoshiwara A.K.A. Heroes of the Red-Light District

1960, 109 min., 35 mm, color, in Japanese with English subtitles. Directed by Tomu Uchida. With Isao Kimura, Minoru Chiaki, shinobu Chihara, Kogiku Hanayagi, Kensaku Hara, Chiezo Kataoka.

The film that led David Shipman to declare Uchida “the equal of Mizoguchi and Kinugasa,” Killing in Yoshiwara ranks with Uchida’s finest postwar work. This dark melodrama’s sudden and violent end in a shower of cherry blossoms is one of the most impressive scenes in Uchida’s canon.

Part of Sakura — Spring Renews, Beauty Blooms.

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