(''Yoshiko & Yuriko'') is a 2011 Japanese

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drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...

directed by

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Plot

Set in 1924, the film follows the relationship between author

Yuriko Miyamoto was a Japanese novelist, short-story writer, social activist, and literary critic active during the Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan. She is best known for her autobiographical fiction and involvement in proletarian and women's libe ...

and openly

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Russian literature translator Yoshiko Yuasa.

Cast and characters

*Nahana as Yoshiko Yuasa *Hitomi Toi as Yuriko Miyamoto (née Chūjō) *

Ren Osugi , born was a Japanese actor. For his work in ''Cure'', ''Hana-bi'' and other films, Osugi was given the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1999 Yokohama Film Festival. He often worked alongside Takeshi Kitano and Susumu Terajima. In the DVD comme ...

as Shigeru Araki *

Kazuko Yoshiyuki (born 9 August 1935) is a Japanese film actress and voice actress essayist. Biography Early life Kazuko was born in Tokyo as a first daughter of Eisuke Yoshiyuki, a writer, and Aguri. She has an older brother, Junnosuke Yoshiyuki, a novelist, ...

as Yoshie Chūjō * Yoriko Douguchi as

Yaeko Nogami Yaeko is a female Japanese given name. People *, Ainu waka poet and evangelist. *, Japanese nurse, wife of Joseph Hardy Neesima *, Japanese novelist *, Japanese volleyball player *, Japanese woman kidnapped by North Korea * Yaeko Uehara, a geiko ...

*Kaho Aso as Sei Kitamura *Hisako Okata as Un Chūjō *Tadahiko Hirano as Seiichiro Chūjō

Development

Based partially on the 1928

semi-autobiographical An autobiographical novel is a form of novel using autofiction techniques, or the merging of autobiographical and fictive elements. The literary technique is distinguished from an autobiography or memoir by the stipulation of being fiction. Bec ...

novel ''Nobuko'' (''伸子 /'' ) by Yuriko Miyamoto and the 1990

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novel ''Yuriko, dasuvidāniya: Yuasa Yoshiko no seishun'' by Hitomi Sawabe, the little-known true story of the relationship between the two women in the early 20th century was produced in 2010, with filming completed on October 22, 2010.

Home media

The Region 2

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of ''Yuriko, Dasvidaniya'' (''百合子, ダスヴィダーニヤ : Yoshiko & Yuriko'') was released in Japan in 2013 by

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Tantansha.

References

External links

* (in Japanese) (Archive) *
''Yoshiko & Yuriko 百合子、ダスヴィダーニヤ''
at Japanese Film Database

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