Love Under The Crucifix
is a 1962 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Kinuyo Tanaka. Love Under the Crucifix is the last film Tanaka directed. The film was adapted from Tōkō Kon's novel ''Ogin-sama''. The film is a bittersweet love story between Sen no Rikyū's daughter Ogin and Takayama Ukon. Cast * Ineko Arima as Ogin * Tatsuya Nakadai as Takayama Ukon * Mieko Takamine as Riki * Masakazu Tamura as Ogin's younger brother * Minoru Chiaki * Ryūji Kita * Kuniko Miyake * Tatsuo Endō (actor), Tatsuo Endō * Yoshi Katō * Ryosuke Kagawa * Manami Fuji as Uno * Yumeji Tsukioka as Lady Yodo * Kōji Nanbara as Ishida Mitsunari * Chishū Ryū as Sokei * Nakamura Ganjirō II as Sen no Rikyū * Osamu Takizawa as Toyotomi Hideyoshi * Keiko Kishi as a sinner References External linksUnder the Crucifix at Shochiku 1962 films Films directed by Kinuyo Tanaka Jidaigeki films Samurai films 1960s Japanese-language films 1960s Japanese films {{1960s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kinuyo Tanaka
was a Japanese actress and film director. She had a career lasting over 50 years with more than 250 acting credits, but was best known for her 15 films with director Kenji Mizoguchi, such as ''The Life of Oharu'' (1952) and ''Ugetsu'' (1953). With her 1953 directorial debut, ''Love Letter'', Tanaka became the second Japanese woman to direct a film, after Tazuko Sakane. Biography Early life and career Tanaka was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, the youngest of nine children of Kumekichi and Yasu Tanaka. Her family were ''kimono'' merchants. Although her family was originally wealthy, after her father Kumekichi died in 1912, the family began having financial troubles. She learned playing the biwa at an early age and moved to Osaka in 1920, where she joined the Biwa Girls' Operetta Troupe. Tanaka's first credited film appearance was in ''Genroku Onna'' (lit. "A Woman of the Genroku era") in 1924, which also marked the start of her affiliation with the Shochiku Studios. S ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Masakazu Tamura
was a Japanese film and theatre actor. Profile Masakazu Tamura was born 1 August 1943 in Kyoto, Japan to Japanese actor Tsumasaburō Bandō. Tsumasaburō Bandō died when Tamura was only nine years old. His brothers Takahiro and Ryō are also actors. He had been thinking of becoming an actor in the future since he was a child. He was thus trained in fighting with swords and more traditional forms of Japanese theatre like Kabuki and Nihon Buyō. He graduated from Seijo University.日本映画人名事典 1996年度 下 P.150-151 キネマ旬報社 In 1960, he made a cameo appearance in the film ''Hatamoto Gurentai'', in which his older brother Takahiro starred. The following year, he signed a contract with the Shōchiku Ōfuna company while he was still in university. In the same year, he made his official film debut in the film '' Eternal Woman'' directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. His first leading film role was '' Kono koenaki sakebi'' directed by Hirokazu Ichimura in 1965. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1962 Films
The year 1962 in film involved some very significant events, with ''Lawrence of Arabia'' winning seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1962 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * February – Warner Bros. buy the film rights for ''My Fair Lady'' for the unprecedented sum of $5.5 million plus 47¼% of the gross over $20 million. * May – The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government. * June 18 – MCA Inc. finalize their merger with Decca-Universal. * July 25 – Darryl F. Zanuck, one of the founders of 20th Century Fox, becomes president, replacing Spyros Skouras. Skouras becomes chairman of the board. * August 5 – Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe is found dead of a drug overdose. * September 7 – Filming of Sergei Bondarchuk's ''War and Peace'' begins and will continue for another 5 years. * October 5 – '' Dr. No'' launch ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi
, otherwise known as and , was a Japanese samurai and ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of the late Sengoku period regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan.Richard Holmes, The World Atlas of Warfare: Military Innovations that Changed the Course of History, Viking Press 1988. p. 68. Hideyoshi rose from a peasant background as a Affinity (medieval), retainer of the prominent lord Oda Nobunaga to become one of the most powerful men in Japan. Hideyoshi succeeded Nobunaga after the Honnō-ji Incident in 1582 and continued Nobunaga's campaign to unite Japan that led to the closing of the Sengoku period. Hideyoshi became the ''de facto'' leader of Japan and acquired the prestigious positions of Daijō-daijin, Chancellor of the Realm and Sesshō and Kampaku, Imperial Regent by the mid-1580s. Hideyoshi launched the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598), Japanese invasions of Korea in 1592 to initial success, but eventual military stalemate damaged his prestige before his death in 1 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chishū Ryū
was a Japanese actor who, in a career lasting 65 years, appeared in over 160 films and about 70 television productions. Early life Ryū was born in Tamamizu Village, Tamana County, a rural area of Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu, the most southerly and westerly of the four main islands of Japan. His father was chief priest of Raishōji (来照寺), a temple of the Honganji School of Pure Land Buddhism. Ryū attended the village elementary school and a prefectural middle school before entering the Department of Indian Philosophy and Ethics at Tōyō University to study Buddhism. His parents hoped he would succeed his father as priest of Raishōji, but Ryū had no wish to do so and in 1925 dropped out of university and enrolled in the acting academy of the Shōchiku motion picture company's Kamata Studios. Shortly afterwards, his father died and Ryū returned home to take on the role of priest. Within half a year or so, however, he passed the office to his older brother and returne ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ishida Mitsunari
Ishida Mitsunari (, 1559 – November 6, 1600) was a Japanese samurai and military commander of the late Sengoku period of Japan. He is probably best remembered as the commander of the Western army in the Battle of Sekigahara following the Azuchi–Momoyama period of the 16th century. He is also known by his court title, Jibu-no-shō (治部少輔). Early life He was born in 1559 at the north of Ōmi Province (which is now Nagahama city, Shiga Prefecture), and was the second son of Ishida Masatsugu, who was a retainer for the Azai clan. His childhood name was Sakichi (). The Ishida withdrew from service after the Azai's defeat in 1573 at the Siege of Odani Castle. According to legend, he was a monk in a Buddhist temple before he served Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but the accuracy of this legend is doubted since it only came about during the Edo period. Service under Hideyoshi Mitsunari met Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1577, when the former was still young and the latter was the ''daimy ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kōji Nanbara
was a Japanese people, Japanese actor. He was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Kanagawa, Japan. In 1951, he signed with Daiei film company. nad made his film debut with ''Kamikaze Tokkotai''. He was most famous for playing villains. He died of a myocardial infarction in Chōfu, Tokyo, Chōfu, Tokyo at age 74. Selected filmography Films *''Danger Stalks Near'' (1957) – Akama *''The Human Condition (film series), The Human Condition'' (1959) – Gao *''The Bad Sleep Well'' (1960) – Horiuchi *''Zero Focus'' (1961) – Kenichi Uhara *''Love Under the Crucifix'' (1962) - *''Abashiri Prison (film), Abashiri Prison'' (1965) – Gonda *''Branded to Kill'' (1967) – the Number One Killer *''Eleven Samurai'' (1967) – Chief Retainer Tatewaki *''Samurai Banners'' (1969) – Aoki *''Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman'' (1971) – Kakuzen *Kantō Exile (1971) *''Wandering Ginza Butterfly'' (1972) – Ōwada *Za Gokiburi - Shimura *''Female Convict Scorpion: Beast Stable'' *''L ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lady Yodo
or (1569 – June 4, 1615) was a prominently placed figure in the late-Sengoku period. She was the daughter of Oichi and sister of Ohatsu and Oeyo. She was a concubine and second wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was then the most powerful man in Japan. She also became the mother of his son and successor, Hideyori. Her time period being that of large turmoil and overhaul, Yodo-dono had an interest toward both politics and administration. She actively acted in the restoration of the Toyotomi clan after the fall of the Council of Five Elders, as Hideyori's guardian. Alongside her son, Yodo-dono led the last anti-Tokugawa shogunate resistance in the siege of Osaka. When her two younger sisters became prominent members linked to the Tokugawa clan, Oichi's three daughters were vital to maintaining a diplomatic relationship between the two most powerful clans of the time, Toyotomi and Tokugawa. Her sister, Oeyo, was the wife of the second shogun, Tokugawa Hidetada, and matriarch of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yumeji Tsukioka
was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in more than 150 films between 1940 and 1994. She starred in the film ''The Temptress and the Monk'', which was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival. Her husband was the director Umetsugu Inoue. Selected filmography * ''Late Spring'' (1949) * ''The Bells of Nagasaki'' (1950) * ''Hiroshima'' (1953) * ''Ojōsan shachō'' (1953) * ''Twenty-Four Eyes'' (1954) * ''A Hole of My Own Making'' (1955) * ''The Eternal Breasts'' (1955) * ''The Temptress and the Monk'' (1958) * ''Love Under the Crucifix'' (1962) * ''Karei-naru Ichizoku is a 1973 novel by Toyoko Yamasaki. It has been adapted into a film in 1974 and then three times as a television series in 1974, 2007, and 2021. Plot Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the show explores the struggle for po ...'' (1974) References External links * * 1922 births 2017 deaths Japanese film actresses 20th-century Japanese actresses Actors from Hirosh ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ryosuke Kagawa
was a Japanese actor. His son was child actor Sō Shuntarō. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1928 and 1986. His final film role was in the 1986 film ''Dixieland Daimyō'' directed by Kihachi Okamoto. Selected filmography * ''Story of a Beloved Wife'' (1951) * ''Dedication of the Great Buddha'' (1952) * '' Gate of Hell'' (1953) * ''Ugetsu'' (1953) * ''Sansho the Bailiff'' (1954) * '' The Second Son'' (1955) * ''The Renyasai Yagyu Hidden Story'' (1956) * '' Suzakumon'' (1957) * ''Enjō'' (1958) * ''The Loyal 47 Ronin'' (1958) * '' Nichiren: A Man of Many Miracles'' (1958) as Hōjō Sanemasa * ''Samurai Vendetta'' (1959) * ''Scar Yosaburo'' (1960) * ''The Story of Osaka Castle'' (1961) as Michiiku Itamiya * '' Akō Rōshi'' (1961) as Matsumae Izunokami * ''Hangyakuji'' (1961) as Ōkubo Tadayo * ''Love Under the Crucifix'' (1962) * '' 13 Assassins'' (1963) as Rōjū * ''Bushido, Samurai Saga'' (1963) as Kōzuki Genza * '' Kojiki Taishō'' (1964) * ''Zatoichi's Flashing ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yoshi Katō
was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than 175 films between 1949 and 1988. He won the award for Best Actor at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival for his role in ''Hometown''. He married the actress Isuzu Yamada in 1950, but they divorced three years later. Selected filmography Film * ''Mahiru no ankoku'' (1956) * ''The Rice People'' (1957) * ''Zero Focus'' (1961) * ''Immortal Love'' (1961) * ''The Mad Fox'' (1962) * ''Gang vs. G-Men'' (1962) as Detective Ogata * ''Shiroi Kyotō'' (1966) as Professor Ōkouchi * '' The Profound Desire of the Gods'' (1968) * ''Hiken yaburi'' (1969) * '' Gyakuen Mitsusakazuki'' (1969) * ''Yakuza Zessyō'' (1970) * ''Silence'' (1971) * '' Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima'' (1973) * ''Himiko'' (1974) * ''Castle of Sand'' (1974) * ''Dragon Princess'' (1976) * '' Torakku Yarō: Ippiki Otoko Momojirō'' (1977) as Sukezaemon Osagawa * ''Hometown'' (1983) * ''Tampopo'' (1985) Television * '' Haru no Sakami ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tatsuo Endō (actor)
was a Japanese actor. He is famous for playing the role of Manhichioyabun on the television jidaigeki series ''Zenigata Heiji''. Selected filmography Film *''Soren dasshutsu: Onna gun'i to nise kyôjin'' (1958) - Sugiyama *''Raiden'' (1959) *''The End of Summer'' (1961) - Hayashi Seizo *''Ôsaka yaro'' (1961) *''Love Under the Crucifix'' (1962) *''A Wanderer's Notebook'' (1962) *''New Tale of Zatoichi'' (1963) - Inn keeper *''Dokonjo ichidai'' (1963) *''Chi to daiyamondo'' (1964) *''Zatoichi's Flashing Sword'' (1964) - Boss Yasugoro of Takeya *''Kenka inu'' (1964) *''Kaoyaku'' (1965) - Kôda *''Nezumi kozo Jirokichi'' (1965) *''Matatabi san ning yakuza'' (1965) *''Muhômatsu no isshô'' (1965) - Kumakichi *''Bôryoku no minato: Tora to ôkami'' (1965) *''Hondara kenpô'' (1965) *''Zatôichi jigoku tabi'' (1965) - Yakuza boss of Ejimaya *''Meiji kyokyakuden - sandaime shumei'' (1965) *''Barâ kêtsu shobû'' (1965) *'' Yojōhan monogatari: Shōfu shino'' (1966) - Segawa Kikuzo *' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |