Hero of the Red-Light District
, also titled Yoshiwara: The Pleasure Quarter or Killing in Yoshiwara, is a 1960 Japanese jidaigeki and drama film by Tomu Uchida.

Plot
Jirozaemon, a successful textile merchant from the provinces, cannot find a wife because of his disfiguring birthmark. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him. When he meets enslaved street prostitute Tamatsuru, who treats him with kindness, he falls in love with her, intent to free and marry her, which leads to his downfall.

Cast
 Chiezō Kataoka as Jirozaemon
 Yaeko Mizutani as Tamatsuru (credited as Yoshie Mizutani)
 Isao Kimura as Einojo
 Minoru Chiaki as Josuke
 Shinobu Chihara as Yaegaki

Legacy
In his Story of Cinema, David Shipman declared Uchida "the equal of Mizoguchi and Kinugasa" for this film, while film historian Alexander Jacoby rated it as "ultimately one of his [Uchiwara's] most conventional" works and "academic".

Hero of the Red-Light District was screened in the Museum of Modern Art as part of a retrospective on Tomu Uchida in 2016.

References

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1960 drama films
Films directed by Tomu Uchida
Films with screenplays by Yoshikata Yoda
Jidaigeki films
Toei Company films
1960s Japanese films
Japanese drama films