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White Beast

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Original title

Shiroi yajuu (White Beast)

Year

1950

Running time

97 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Mikio Naruse

Screenwriter

Mikio Naruse, Motosada Nishiki

Cast

Music

Akira Ifukube

Cinematography

Masao Tamai (B&W)

Producer

Toho, Tanaka Productions

Genre

Drama | Prostitution. Disease/illness

Synopsis

he critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and estranged lovers. With its catfights, hysterical tantrums, film noir lighting, and dramatic music, White Beast is indicative of the new influences of the Hollywood psychological thriller on Naruse. Caged (John Cromwell, 1950) initiated a cycle of women's prison movies in the United States that may or may not have been shown in Japan, but the stylistics of White Beast draw on the same paranoid woman's films and film noir conventions that preceded the American cycle.

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White Beast

1950

Mikio Naruse

6.7

(50)