The Ditch

Year: 1954

Runtime: 111 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Kaneto Shindô

Drama

Set in postwar Tokyo, Pin and Toku are avid gamblers who live in the cramped squatter district of Kappanuma. They take in Tsuru, a slightly unbalanced woman who has escaped from a geisha house, pushing their already precarious daily existence into even greater turmoil.

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