Underworld Beauty

Ankokugai no bijo, Underworld Beauty, feature film, 1958.

DIRECTED BY: Seijun Suzuki

Underworld Beauty

CAST:
Michitaro Mizushima (Miyamoto),
Mari Shiraki (Akiko),
Shinsuke Ashida,
Tôru Abe,
Hideaki Nitani

SCRIPT:
Susumu Saji

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Wataro Nakao

Synopsis:
This is the first film directed by Seijun Suzuki in which he did not use his real name, Seitaro Suzuki, and also his first film made using the cinemascope technique. It is a story about Akiko, a beautiful young girl who got involved in the crime world because of her boyfriend. Her brother was a diamond smuggler and just before committing suicide swallowed some valuable loot. Akiko’s boyfriend took the diamonds out of his body - and even though she is unaware of all this, Akiko suddenly becomes the gangsters’ main target.

35 mm, b/w, 87 min