Dobu (film)

Dobu (どぶ) is a 1954 Japanese film written and directed by Kaneto Shindo and starring Nobuko Otowa.[1]

Dobu
Directed byKaneto Shindo
Produced byKōzaburō Yoshimura[1]
Screenplay byKaneto Shindo
StarringNobuko Otowa, Jūkichi Uno, Taiji Tonoyama
Music byAkira Ifukube
Production
company
Release date
  • July 27, 1954 (1954-07-27) (Japan)
[1]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Plot

Toku, a factory worker (Taiji Tonoyama) gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru (Nobuko Otowa), who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with his friend Pin-chan (Jūkichi Uno). The two men try to get rid of her but then let her stay when she gives them money. Tsuru tells the people of the village that she lost her job due to a strike, then was robbed of her severance pay, then sold to a brothel in Tsuchiura. She ran away with a friend from Kawasaki. Toku and Pin-chan sell her to a geisha house and spend the money. She is thrown out. The owner demands his money back. Tsuru earns the money to pay their debt by working as a prostitute outside the station. The other prostitutes beat her. She fends them off with a policeman's revolver and is then shot dead by the police.

Cast

Reception

Japanese film scholar Alexander Jacoby describes Dobu as "a searing account of urban poverty".[2]

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References
  1. "どぶ - KINENOTE". Retrieved 17 September 2012.
  2. Jacoby, Alexander (31 May 2012). "Classical virtues: Shindo Kaneto and Yoshimura Kozaburo". British Film Institute. Retrieved 17 September 2012.


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