Osen the Prostitute — The Lower Depths Character Profile

About Osen the Prostitute

A prostitute among the impoverished tenants struggling to survive in the rundown Edo tenement.

Character Facts

Played by

Akemi Negishi

Appears in

The Lower Depths (1957)

Role

Supporting

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• Former Samurai (Minoru Chiaki)
• The Actor (Kamatari Fujiwara)
• Rokubei, Osugi's Husband (Ganjirō Nakamura II)
• Tatsu (Haruo Tanaka)
• Otaki the Candy-Seller (Nijiko Kiyokawa)
• Yoshisaburo the Gambler (Kōji Mitsui)
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