Film

An Heir's Place

1953 · 2h 5m

This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by Hasegawa Kuzuo who went on to become familiar among Ichikawa Kon fans as Yukinojo in An Actor's Revenge, which was also co-written by Ito, adding to the relatedness of An Heir's Place.

Kazuo Hasegawa

Yagoro Hosho

Kinuyo Tanaka

Hisa Hosho

Yūji Hori

Ikutaro

Keiko Kishi

Ichijirō Oya

Kan Ishii

Chieko Higashiyama

Kumeko Urabe

Noriko Uchida

Shinobu Araki

Eigorō Onoe

Toshiaki Konoe

Hiroshi Ueda

Saburo Date

Fumihiko Yokoyama

Jun Fujikawa

• Daisuke ItōDirector · Writer
• Sumie TanakaWriter
• Hideo IshimotoDirector of Photography
• Ikuma DanOriginal Music Composer

Release date

June 3, 1953

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

2h 5m