is a 1956 Japanese
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
written and directed by
Kaneto Shindo
was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer, who directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include ''Children of Hiroshima'', ''The Naked Island'', '' Onibaba'', ''Kuroneko'' and ' ...
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Cast
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Nobuko Otowa
was a Japanese actress who appeared in more than 100 films between 1950 and 1994.
A graduate of Takarazuka Girl's Opera School, Otowa was first signed to Daiei studios, before becoming a freelance actress by the early 1950s. After starring in ...
as Kakuko Mori
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Chikako Hosokawa
Chikako (written: , or ) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Chikako, Princess Kazu
*Fujiwara no Chikako (藤原親子), Japanese noblewoman and waka poet
*, Japanese snowboarder
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as Tsukiko, Kakuko's mother
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Shinsuke Ashida
was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1952 and 1996.
Selected filmography
Film
* ''Gendai-jin'' (1952)
* ''Mahiru no ankoku'' (1956)
* ''An Actress'' (1956)
* ''Underworld Beauty'' (1958)
* ''Arashi no naka o tsuppash ...
as Shinichirō Yagi
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Sen Hara as Chiyo, Akio's mother
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Sumiko Hidaka as Yugiku Yoshiya
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Tanie Kitabayashi
was a Japanese actress and voice actress. Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre Company, founded in 1950. Early in her career, she became well known for portraying o ...
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Kei Taguchi
is a Japanese actor. He is most famous for playing villains and appeared in many jidaigeki and detective television dramas as a guest.日本タレント名鑑'82 VIPタイムズ社、1981 P.113 He is also known as voice actor. Taguchi graduated f ...
as Tabata
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Taketoshi Naitō
was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1953 and 2003. He died of lymphoma on 21 August 2012.
Selected filmography Film
* '' Mahiru no ankoku'' (1956)
* ''An Actress'' (1956) - Akio Satomi
* '' The Burmese Harp'' (1956) ...
as Akio Satomi
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Eitarō Ozawa
, also credited as Sakae Ozawa (小沢栄), was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1935 and 1988, directed by notable filmmakers such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Keisuke Kinoshita and Kaneto Shindō.
Selected fil ...
as Tarō Fujie
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Zenpei Saga as Sugisaburō
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Koreya Senda
was a Japanese stage director, translator, and actor. He was born in Kanagawa Prefecture.[CITWF. Koreya Senda< ...](_blank)
as Yasuda
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Ichirō Shimizu
, also written Ichiro, Ichirou or Ichiroh is a masculine Japanese given name. The name is occasionally given to the first-born son in a family.
Like many Japanese names, Ichirō can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
* 一 ...
as Kunijirō Matsukawa
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Taiji Tonoyama
was a Japanese character actor who made many appearances in films and on television from 1939 to 1989. He was a close friend of Kaneto Shindo and one of his regular cast members. He was also an essayist. In 1950 he helped form the film company Ki ...
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Eijirō Tōno
was a Japanese actor who, in a career lasting more than 50 years, appeared in over 400 television shows, nearly 250 films and numerous stage productions. He is best known in the West for his roles in films by Akira Kurosawa, such as ''Seven Samu ...
as Tadao Inoue
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Jūkichi Uno
(real name ; 27 September 1914 – 9 January 1988) was a Japanese actor. In 1950, he formed the with Osamu Takizawa and others.
Personal life
He is the father of musician Akira Terao.
Filmography
Honours
*Medals of Honor (Japan), Medal wi ...
as Toshirō Yamashita
References
External links
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1956 films
1956 drama films
Japanese drama films
1950s Japanese-language films
Films directed by Kaneto Shindo
Films scored by Akira Ifukube
Japanese black-and-white films
1950s Japanese films
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