is 1958
Japanese romance-drama film in technicolor, directed by
Koji Shima
was a Japanese film director, actor, and screenwriter.
Career
Born as Takehiko Kagoshima in Nagasaki, Shima left for Tokyo after graduating from high school. He was in the first class of the Nihon Eiga Haiyū Gakkō and joined the Nikkatsu stu ...
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Film cast
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Machiko Kyō
was a Japanese actress who was active primarily in the 1950s.
Early life and education
Kyō, an only child, was born in Osaka in 1924. Her father left when she was five years old, and she was raised by her mother and grandmother. She adopted ...
as Aya Koyanagi
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Hiroshi Kawaguchi as Takeshi Koyanagi
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Kenji Sugawara Kenji may refer to:
*Kenji (given name), a masculine Japanese given name, and list of people & characters with this name
*Kenji (era), a Japanese era spanned from 1275 to 1278
* ''Kenji'' (manga) (拳児), a 1980s manga by Matsuda Ryuchi
* "Kenji" ...
as Rentaro Shinohara
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Hitomi Nozoe
was a Japanese actress popular in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Career
Nozoe first gained attention in ingénue roles for Shochiku in films such as Kobayashi's ''Sincerity'' (1953), eventually joining Daiei following her appearance in 1955's nati ...
as Kana Shinohara
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Junko Kano
is a feminine Japanese given name.
Possible writings
Junko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean any of the following:
*純子, "pure, child"
*順子, "order, child"
*淳子, "pure, child"
*潤子, "rich/favor/wet, child"
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as Fusae Shimazaki
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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 ...
as Tetsu Koyanagi
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Kyu Sazanka as Saburo Maeda
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Chieko Naniwa
Chieko Naniwa (浪花 千栄子) (November 19, 1907 – December 22, 1973) was a Japanese actress who was active from the 1920s to the 1970s. She is best known for playing geisha in several films, such as Keiji Mizoguchi's ''A Geisha'', and t ...
as Yone
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Michiko Ono
Michiko is a Japanese given name, used for females. Although written romanized the same way, the Japanese language written forms (kanji, katakana, hiragana) can be different. Common forms include:
* 美智子 — "beautiful wise child"
* 美 ...
as Shinko
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Teruko Kishi
Teruko (written: , , or ) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
*, Empress of Japan
*Akai Teruko Akai Teruko (赤井輝子, November 6, 1514 – December 17, 1594) or Myoinni (妙印尼) was a late-Sengoku peri ...
as Kinoshita
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Fujio Harumoto as Maruyama
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Yoshiro Kitahara as Shimizu
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Kiyoko Hirai as Mrs. Sekine
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Atsuko Kindaichi as Sekine's daughter
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Yoshihiro Hamaguchi
was a Japanese freestyle swimmer.
He represented Japan at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. There, he won a silver medal as a member of the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay team, alongside Toru Goto, Hiroshi Suzuki and Teijiro Tanik ...
as Hirota
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Frank Nagai
Frank Nagai (フランク 永井; March 18, 1932 – October 27, 2008) was a Japanese singer. Known for his attractive baritone voice. His real name was Kiyoto Nagai (永井 清人 ''Nagai Kiyoto'').
Life
Frank Nagai was born in Matsuyama, Mi ...
as himself (singing)
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Mariko Ogasawara as maid at Koyanagi's
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Minami Satoko as Sadako Yamanaka
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Ryuji Shinagawa as announcer
References
External links
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Japanese romantic drama films
1958 films
Films directed by Koji Shima
1950s Japanese films
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