Film

The Bride is Fifteen

1964 · 1h 19m

Hanayome wa Jūgo-sai, directed by Mio Ezaki and distributed by Nikkatsu, stars Masako Izumi and Ken Yamauchi. The high-key pink background and casual photographic portrait embody Nikkatsu’s 1960s youth-film aesthetic. Clean, hopeful, and pop-oriented. The large white title, handwritten for a softer impression, injects playful energy that contrasts with the strict vertical text blocks. As Japan’s youth culture blossomed after the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, posters like this captured the spirit of romance and rebellion marketed to teenage audiences. The vivid color palette and carefree composition signal a stylistic shift from postwar black-and-white melodrama to the vibrant optimism of modern Technicolor cinema.

Ken Yamauchi

Masako Izumi

Eijirō Tōno

Tomoko Naraoka

Toshio Takahara

Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Masami Shimojō

Eimei Esumi

Toshio Sugiyama

Minako Katsuki

Kotoe Hatsui

Nobuo Kawakami

Ikunosuke Koizumi

Keisuke Yukioka

Masahiro Kinoshita

Tomio Aoki

• Mio EzakiDirector · Screenplay
• Eitaro MorikawaScreenplay
• Tsutomu TamuraScreenplay
• Shinji FujiwaraNovel

Release date

March 25, 1964

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 19m