White Beast (1950)

ALL 06/03/1950 (ja) Drama 97 Min
  • Release
    06/03/1950
  • Production
    Tanaka Production
  • Rotten tomato
    60%
  • Original title
    Shiroi yajuu
  • Original language
    ja
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

The 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 cat fights, 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.

  1. Mikio Naruse

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Tomoyuki Tanaka

    Producer



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White Beast (1950) 97 Min

ALL 06/03/1950 (ja)
Drama
  • Release 06/03/1950
  • Production
    Tanaka Production
  • Original title Shiroi yajuu
  • ja
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

The 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 cat fights, 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.

  1. Mikio Naruse

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Yoshiharu Bandô

    Editor

  4. Tomoyuki Tanaka

    Producer