White Beast

Synopsis

The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and estranged lovers. With its cat fights, hysterical tantrums, film noir lighting, and dramatic music, White Beast is indicative of the new influences of the Hollywood psychological thriller on Naruse. Caged (John Cromwell, 1950) initiated a cycle of women's prison movies in the United States that may or may not have been shown in Japan, but the stylistics of White Beast draw on the same paranoid woman's films and film noir conventions that preceded the American cycle.

Main Cast

Mitsuko Miura

Age : 52 | Popularity : 3%

Sō Yamamura

Age : 90 | Popularity : 4%

Eiji Okada

Age : 75 | Popularity : 7%

Kimiko Iino

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Chieko Nakakita

Age : 79 | Popularity : 3%

Mayuri Mokushô

Age : 94 | Popularity : 7%

Noriko Sengoku

Age : 90 | Popularity : 5%

Masao Shimizu

Age : 66 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Camera	Director of Photography	Masao Tamai
Production	Producer	Tomoyuki Tanaka
	Production Manager	Teruo Maki
Directing	Director	Mikio Naruse
Writing	Writer	Mikio Naruse Motosada Nishiki
Sound	Original Music Composer	Akira Ifukube
	Sound Editor	Chôshichirô Mikami
Editing	Editor	Yoshiharu Bandô
Art	Production Design	Tōtetsu Hirakawa Masao Takeda
	Assistant Art Director	Masayoshi Kawanishi
Lighting	Gaffer	Hyakumi Shima
Department	Role	Name

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