Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954)
近松物語
The tortured heart behind the cultivated image.
When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves truly falling for one another.
- Date of release
- 1954-11-23
- TMDB
- 7.8 / 10 (158)
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Director
- Kenji Mizoguchi
Casting
- Kazuo Hasegawa — Mohei
- Kyōko Kagawa — Osan
- Eitarō Shindō — Ishun
- Eitarō Ozawa — Sukeemon
- Yōko Minamida — Otama
- Haruo Tanaka — Gifuya Dôki
- Chieko Naniwa — Okô
- Ichirō Sugai — Gembei
- Tatsuya Ishiguro — Isan
- Hiroshi Mizuno — Kuroki
- Hisao Toake — Morinokoji
- Ikkei Tamaki — Jushiro Umegaki
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