The Ditch

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Nobuko Otowa

Tsuru

Age : N/A | Popularity : 21%

Jūkichi Uno

Age : 73 | Popularity : 7%

Taiji Tonoyama

Age : N/A | Popularity : 22%

Sō Yamamura

Age : 90 | Popularity : 4%

Ichirō Sugai

Age : 66 | Popularity : 5%

Kamatari Fujiwara

Age : 80 | Popularity : 5%

Takashi Kanda

Age : 68 | Popularity : 7%

Tsutomu Shimomoto

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Kaneto Shindō
Writing	Screenplay	Kaneto Shindō Gorō Tanada
Lighting	Lighting Technician	Shoichi Tabata
Sound	Original Music Composer	Akira Ifukube
Crew	Sound Recordist	Kenji Nagaoka
Art	Art Direction	Takashi Marumo
Production	Executive Producer	Kōzaburō Yoshimura
Editing	Editor	Zenju Imaizumi
Camera	Director of Photography	Takeo Itô
Department	Role	Name

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