The Lower Depths
19572h 5mNo ratings yet
- Drama
Overview
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.
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- philosophical
- love triangle
- slum
- jidaigeki
- landlady
- slum dwellers
- edo period
- landlord
- class struggle
- sisters love same man
- landlady tenant relationship
- bakumatsu
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 1, 1957
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- TOHO
- Cast
- Toshirō Mifune,Isuzu Yamada,Kyōko Kagawa,Ganjirō Nakamura II,Minoru Chiaki,Kamatari Fujiwara,Akemi Negishi,Nijiko Kiyokawa,Kōji Mitsui,Eijirō Tōnoand 7 more
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Cinematography
- Kazuo Yamasaki
- Music
- Masaru Satō
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0050330