Film
Chikamatsu Monogatari
1954 · 1h 42m · Drama · Romance
The tortured heart behind the cultivated image.
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Overview
When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves truly falling for one another.
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Cast
Kazuo Hasegawa
Mohei
Kyōko Kagawa
Osan
Eitarō Shindō
Ishun
Eitarō Ozawa
Sukeemon
Yōko Minamida
Otama
Haruo Tanaka
Gifuya Dôki
Chieko Naniwa
Okô
Ichirō Sugai
Gembei
Tatsuya Ishiguro
Isan
Hiroshi Mizuno
Kuroki
Hisao Toake
Morinokoji
Ikkei Tamaki
Jushiro Umegaki
Kimiko Tachibana
Umetatsu Akamatsu
Keiko Koyanagi
Okaya
Sayako Nakagami
Osono
Kanae Kobayashi
Otatsu
Crew
- Kenji MizoguchiDirector
- Yoshikata YodaScreenplay
- Matsutarō KawaguchiScreenplay
- Masaichi NagataProducer
- Kazuo MiyagawaDirector of Photography
- Fumio HayasakaOriginal Music Composer
- Tamezô MochizukiOriginal Music Composer
- Kanji SuganumaEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- November 23, 1954
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Rated
- +13
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
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