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Shiroi yajû (1950)
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.
Updated May 23 2020
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Cast
Tanie Kitabayashi
Sô Yamamura
Noriko Sengoku
Tatsuya Ishiguro
Chieko Nakakita
Masao Shimizu
Taizô Fukami
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Crew
Masao Tamai
Director of Photography
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Producer
Mikio Naruse
Director
Mikio Naruse
Writer
Akira Ifukube
Original Music Composer
Motosada Nishiki
Writer
Yoshiharu Bandô
Editor
Tôtetsu Hirakawa
Production Design
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