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Karumen junjô su

Karumen junjô su

1952Movie⏱️ 1h 43m
Comedy
6.2
IMDB Rating
247 votes

A naive stripper falls for an artist engaged to the daughter of a controversial female politician.

Director
Keisuke Kinoshita
Writers
N/A
Stars
Hideko Takamine, Masao Wakahara, Chikage Awashima
Release Date
November 13, 1952
Language
Japanese, English, French
Country
Japan
💬 7
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Hideko Takamine
Hideko Takamine
as Lily Carmen
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Masao Wakahara
as Hajime Sudô
Chikage Awashima
Chikage Awashima
as Chidori Satake
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Toshiko Kobayashi
as Maya Akemi
Eiko Miyoshi
Eiko Miyoshi
as Kumako Satake
Chieko Higashiyama
Chieko Higashiyama
as Maid Kiku
Sachiko Murase
Sachiko Murase
as Sudo's Mother
Takeshi Sakamoto
Takeshi Sakamoto
as Lucky's Old Man
Shin'ichi Himori
Shin'ichi Himori
as Nomura
Tatsuo Saitô
Tatsuo Saitô
as Sudo's Father

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White
Production
Shochiku

🏷️ Keywords

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🎯 Categories

JapaneseComedy

⭐ Featured Review

An annoying soap opera
by jellopuke2023-02-13
5/10

"Carmen suffers through a hard life as a stripper when she falls in love with an artist who is engaged to marry a woman with a large dowry who sleeps around. Carmen's pal has a baby from a man who ditched her that never stops crying. Sudo (the artist) deals with an overbearing mother in law who's running for office and a woman after him to pay her off for her own kid he left her with. This is basically a soap opera of twists set in early 50's post war Japan. It's sort of wacky, sort of dark, sort of awful. Nobody is likeable really and poor Carmen is treated like dirt. I th..."

💡 Did You Know?

Appropriately for the title character, songs from Bizet's opera Carmen are used in the strip show including Habanera, Je vais danser en votre honneur, the Gypsy song and the Prelude.

📖 Synopsis

A naive stripper falls for an artist engaged to the daughter of a controversial female politician.