The Lower Depths
- Released on
Drama
•- Runtime
- 125 mins
(126 votes)
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.
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.
Cast
- Toshirō Mifune
- Isuzu Yamada
- Kyōko Kagawa
- Ganjirō Nakamura II
- Minoru Chiaki
- Kamatari Fujiwara
- Akemi Negishi
- Nijiko Kiyokawa
- Kōji Mitsui
- Eijirō Tōno
- Haruo Tanaka
- Eiko Miyoshi
- Bokuzen Hidari
- Atsushi Watanabe
- Kichijirō Ueda
- Yū Fujiki
- Fujitayama
Director
- Akira Kurosawa
Producers
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Akira Kurosawa
- Sōjirō Motoki
Screenwriter
- Akira Kurosawa
- Hideo Oguni
