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Auction History Result 9j392 STREET OF SHAME Belgian '56 Kenji Mizoguchi's Akasen Chitai, Machiko Kyo Date Sold 8/23/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Belgian Movie Poster (measures 14" x 21" [36 x 53 cm]) (Learn More) Akasen Chitai (released in the U.S. in 1959 as "Street of Shame"), the classic 1956 Kenji Mizoguchi Japanese brothel prostitution melodrama (about five very different prostitutes who work in a legal brothel that may be about to be closed by the government, and each of the women considers the ways they can continue on without being prostitutes) starring Machiko Kyo (billed on U.S. posters as "Machiko Kyo star of 'Teahouse of the August Moon' and 'Gate of Hell'"), Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao, Michiyo Kogure, and Kumeko Urabe. Note that this movie was made by Kenji Mizoguchi, who had earlier made the highly regarded "Ugetsu" and "Sansho the Baliff", and this movie also received very positive reviews and won some awards. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Note that this item (and others we are auctioning in this set of auctions) come to us from the estate of Lee Sanders. Mr. Sanders was a nationally recognized projectionist, film poster collector, and union activist who passed away last year, and the net proceeds from the sale of his varied and eclectic collection will be donated to promote film studies at the Besant School of Happy Valley in Ojai, Ca. Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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