(おんなけいずゆしまのしらうめ), aka ''The White Plum of Yushima'', is a 1955 black-and-white

Japanese film The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2021, it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that ea ...

directed by

Teinosuke Kinugasa was a Japanese filmmaker. He was born in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture and died in Kyoto. Kinugasa won the 1954 Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival for '' Gate of Hell''. Biography Kinugasa began his career as an onnagata (actor specializing in f ...

Plot

A highly esteemed student falls for Otsuta, a geisha.

Remake

A TV remake of the film was broadcast, by

Fuji TV JOCX-DTV (channel 8), branded as and colloquially known as CX, is a Japanese television station based in Odaiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Owned and operated by the it is the key station of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and the Fuji Network Sys ...

as part of

Shionogi is a Japanese pharmaceutical company best known for developing Crestor. Medical supply and brand name also uses katakana (シオノギ). Shionogi has business roots that date back to 1878, and was incorporated in 1919. Among the medicines prod ...

's sponsored TV theater program, between Thursday 9 June and Thursday 16 June in 1966, starring Fujiko Yamamoto who revived her film leading role as Otsuta.

Cast

Fujiko Yamamoto (born 11 December 1931) is a Japanese film and stage actress. She appeared in over 100 films between 1953 and 1963. She won the first Grand Prix of Miss Nippon in 1950. Career Yamamoto was born on 11 December 1931, in Nishi-ku, Osaka, to a cot ...

Kōji Tsuruta , better known by his stage name , was a Japanese actor and singer. He appeared in almost 260 feature films and had a unique style of singing. His daughter, Sayaka Tsuruta, is an actress. Career Born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Tsuruta was raised in ...

* Masayuki Mori * Sumiko Fujita *

Yasuko Kawakami Yasuko (written: , , , , , , , , or ) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese empress *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese empress consort * Yasuko Harada (原田康子, 19282009), ...

Ryu Mita is a Japanese masculine given name and family name meaning "dragon", "noble", "prosperous", or "flow". Ryū, Ryu, or ryu may also refer to: Fiction * ''Ryū'' (manga), a 1986 series by Masao Yajima and Akira Oze * , a 1919 book by Ryūnosuke Aku ...

Kikuko Tachibana Kikuko (written: 喜久子, 伎共子 or 記久子) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese singer and voice actress *, Japanese composer *, Japanese writer *, Japanese pianist, music educator and class ...

References

External links

* Japanese black-and-white films 1955 films Films directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa Daiei Film films Films scored by Ichirō Saitō Japanese romance films 1950s romance films 1950s Japanese films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub