Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man.
Key credits listed on this page include Max Ophüls, J. Dapoigny, Arnold Lipp, Wolfgang Wilhelm, Pierre Richard-Willm, Sessue Hayakawa, Lucienne Le Marchand, and Roland Toutain.