Crossroads

Crossroads
  • Release date: 11 May 1928
  • Release year: 1928
  • Runtime: 81 minutes
  • Country: Japan
  • Keywords: prostitute, sacrifice, fight, brother, sister, blindness, courtesan, public humiliation, knife, murder
Plot:
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.
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