The Ditch

The Ditch

Dobu
🎞️ Movie 111 min JP
โ˜… 7.3 /10 1954

Toku, a factory worker gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru, who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with his friend Pin-chan. The two men try to get rid of her but then let her stay when she gives them money. Tsuru tells the people of the village that she lost her job due to a strike, then was robbed of her severance pay, then sold to a brothel in Tsuchiura. She ran away with a friend from Kawasaki. Toku and Pin-chan sell her to a geisha house and spend the money. She is thrown out. The owner demands his money back. Tsuru earns the money to pay their debt by working as a prostitute outside the station. The other prostitutes beat her. She fends them off with a policeman's revolver and is then shot dead by the police.

Cast

Nobuko Otowa
Nobuko Otowa
Tsuru
Jūkichi Uno
Jūkichi Uno
Pin-chan
Taiji Tonoyama
Taiji Tonoyama
Toku
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Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru
Nishimura
Ichirō Sugai
Ichirō Sugai
Landlord
Tsutomu Shimomoto
Tsutomu Shimomoto
Sugimura
Sō Yamamura
Sō Yamamura
Businessman
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Noriko Matsuyama
Asako
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Mayuri Mokushô
Hiromi
Hiroshi Kondō
Hiroshi Kondō
Teruaki
Akira Ifukube
Akira Ifukube
Composer
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Takeo Itô
Cinematographer