The Lower Depths

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.

Genre: Drama

Stars: Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyōko Kagawa, Ganjirō Nakamura II, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara

Crew: Tomoyuki Tanaka (Producer), Akira Kurosawa (Producer), Yoshiko Samejima (Costume Design), Sōjirō Motoki (Producer), Masaru Satō (Original Music Composer), Yoshirō Muraki (Production Design)

Country: Japan

Language: 日本語

Studio: TOHO

Runtime: 125 minutes

Quality: HD

Released: Oct 01, 1957

IMDb: 3.9

Keywords:based on novel or book, slum, love triangle, landlord, landlady, jidaigeki, edo period, philosophical, class struggle, slum dwellers, landlady tenant relationship, sisters love same man

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The Lower Depths

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