09 April 1988 Drama, Crime 119 mins
Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of their money for a proposed dancehall to be named Paradise. The hookers live in a bombed-out building, but they accept the precarious situation with typical resolve.
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Rino Katase as Kanto Komasa
Yūko Natori as Rakucho no Osumi
Jinpachi Nezu as Yoshio Hakamada
Miyuki Kanō as Borneo Maya
Kazuyo Matsui as Blood Sakura Ogin
Senri Yamazaki as Fuuten no Roku
Tsunehiko Watase as Shintaro Ibuki
Shinsuke Ashida as Tattoo artist
Naomi Hase as Mino Inui
Yoshimi Ashikawa as Mitsuyo Honjo
Chie Matsuoka as Baby
Mineko Nishikawa as Machiko Kikuma
Mach Fumiake as Big Mama Okyo
Akira Shioji as Aoki
Masaru Shiga as Osako
Ken Mitsuishi as Sub
Hideo Gosha Director
Kazuo Kasahara Writer
Taijirō Tamura Novel
Shigeru Okada Producer
Isamu Ichida Editor
Fujio Morita Director of Photography
Moshifumi Izumimori Original Music Composer
Fujio Morita Cinematography
Yoshiaki Masuda Lighting Camera
Yoshinobu Nishioka Art Direction
Nikutai no mon Trailer
Carmen 1945 Trailer
Japan 09 April 1988
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1988:
07 April 1988
American cowboys have been writing poetry for over a century. This little-known literary tradition both belies the macho image of the Western heroes and serves as an imaginative form of oral history.
30 March 1988
A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.
16 April 1988
Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest.
14 October 1988
The image of Greater Poland in the breakthrough years 1913-1918. It tells about the fate of Polish junior high school students and their attitude towards the Prussian partitioning authorities, activity in the independence underground, and participation in the preparations for the Greater Poland Uprising.
31 May 1988
A slightly goofy look at the three rivers that help define Pittsburgh
03 July 1988
July 3, 1988 – Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble perform at Pistoia Blues Festival in Pistoia,y
29 June 1988
An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York.
26 February 1988
An American Army Major goes AWOL to Hong Kong for an outlawed martial arts contest called the Kumite.
15 July 1988
High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages, and declared war.
02 May 1988
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01 November 1988
Adoring capsule of the Mets 1988 season, in which they won 100 games and the National League east division but lost the pennant to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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