Plot
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.
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Cast
Mitsuko Miura
Sō Yamamura
Eiji Okada
Kimiko Iino
Chieko Nakakita
Mayuri Mokushô
Noriko Sengoku
Masao Shimizu
Tatsuya Ishiguro
Taizō Fukami
Fujio Nagahama
Tanie Kitabayashi
Yûko Matsui
Yaeko Izumo
Tsuruko Mano
Haruko Ashida
Hideko Yanoshima
Mie Asô
Haruko Toyama
Chizuko Okamura
Kinuko Kazami
Yoko Ueno
Aguri Hidaka
Midori Shinma
Chiyoko Hosokawa
