

This Greedy Old Skin
1960-09-18 · 108 min · ★ 10.0
A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers, including her own son, who makes a meagre living stripping taxicabs.
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- Directors
- Yasuki Chiba
- Production companies
- TOHO
- Countries
- Japan
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Aiko MimasuOshika
Tadao TakashimaKanta
Mitsuko KusabueHatsue
Reiko DanKinu
Masayuki MoriKumakichi
Hisaya MorishigeHikohachi Mukoyama
Kyū SazankaMasukin
Daisuke Katō
Ikio SawamuraTruck driver
Kyōko AnzaiOtaka
Hisako HaraOsaki
Yū Fujiki
Haruko Tōgō
Chisako Hara
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