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.
Le domestique
L'officier russe
Un marin
Un officier japonais
Le président du tribunal
Lieutenant Serge Polenoff
Ysamo, Kuli
Namo
Pawlik
Kohana
Pô
Le commandant
Une geisha
L'attaché russe
L'agent secret
Le médecin