The Ditch (1954)
1h 51m
Running Time
July 27, 1954Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Ranko Akagi
Actress
Nobuko Otowa
Tsuru
Kamatari Fujiwara
Actor
Taiji Tonoyama
Actor
Bokuzen Hidari
Actor
Jūkichi Uno
Actor
Noriko Honma
Actress
Kaneto Shindō
Director
Akira Ifukube
Composer
Chōko Iida
Actress
Takashi Kanda
Actor
Yoshi Katō
Actor
Tamae Kiyokawa
Actress
Zenju Imaizumi
Editor
Kōzaburō Yoshimura
Executive Producer
Gorō Tanada
Screenplay
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Dobu (どぶ, lit. The Ditch) is a 1954 Japanese drama film directed by Kaneto Shindō and starring Nobuko Otowa.