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Chikamatsu Monogatari
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.
1954 · Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi · 102 min · Drama · Romance · 9 frames
Tagline
The tortured heart behind the cultivated image.
Crew
- Screenplay: Yoshikata Yoda, Matsutarō Kawaguchi
- Cinematography: Kazuo Miyagawa
- Edited by: Kanji Suganuma
- Music: Fumio Hayasaka, Tamezō Mochizuki
- Produced by: Masaichi Nagata
Cast
- Kazuo Hasegawa as Mohei
- Kyōko Kagawa as Osan
- Eitarō Shindō as Ishun
- Eitarō Ozawa as Sukeemon
- Yōko Minamida as Otama
- Haruo Tanaka as Gifuya Dôki
- Chieko Naniwa as Okô
- Ichirō Sugai as Gembei
- Tatsuya Ishiguro as Isan
- Hiroshi Mizuno as Kuroki
Production
- Country: Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Studios: Daiei Film
- Themes: japan, escape, suicide attempt, lover, love, extramarital affair, bankruptcy, kyoto, japan, locked in, jidaigeki
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