Crossroads
MovieTitle | 十字路 |
User score | 6.8 |
Release date | May 11, 1928 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Teinosuke Kinugasa |
Production country | Japan |
Production companies | Kinugasa Eiga Renmei, Shochiku |
Run time | 74 min. |
After falling in love with a courtesan, Rikiya is blinded by ash during a fight in a brothel. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent dead, Rikiya goes back home to his sister. Okiku, desperate to protect her brother who thinks himself a murderer, wants to sacrifice herself for him and become a prostitute to pay for Rikiya's treatment.