Film

Sumida River

1942 · 1h 34m

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big stars like Hasegawa or Bando. "Sumidagawa", named after the river that runs through Tokyo, is also a period film, but thematically a modern one. All the themes that you associate with the normal Shochiku women's films set in the present day are in this film, just in a different context: love, the planning of a marriage, career, family relations and societal melancholy. There is no action or swordplay.

Shusuke Agata

Kōji Mitsui

Fumiko Okamura

Tatsuo Saitō

Ken Uehara

Hiroko Kawasaki

Hideo Fujino

Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Takeshi Sakamoto

Seiji Nishimura

Tetsu Tsuboi

Setsuko Shinobu

Ryōtarō Mizushima

Kazuko Okada

Sugako Takimi

• Kintaro InoueWriter · Director
• Toshio TamikadoWriter
• Matsutarō KawaguchiStory

Release date

September 3, 1942

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 34m