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The Lower Depths

7.1 / 10

125 minutes

1957-10-01

Japanese

JP

Actors :

Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyōko Kagawa, Ganjirō Nakamura II, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Akemi Negishi, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Kōji Mitsui, Eijirō Tōno, Haruo Tanaka, Eiko Miyoshi, Bokuzen Hidari, Atsushi Watanabe, Kichijirō Ueda

Description

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.