White Beast
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.
Release Date
June 3, 1950Runtime
97 minGenres
DramaDirected by
Mikio NaruseWritten by
Motosada Nishikame, Mikio NaruseLanguage
JapaneseBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
ReleasedCast
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