The Dancer (1989)
舞姫
Against the backdrop of late 19th-century Berlin, Toyotaro Ota, a young Japanese uni student studying in Germany, meets and falls in love with 16-year-old local dancer Elise. Their unconventional affair and subsequent cohabitation stir up a massive scandal that threatens his reputation, eventually reaching the ears of officials in Japan.
- Date of release
- 1989-10-12
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 2h 3m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Masahiro Shinoda
Casting
- Hiromi Go — Toyotaro Ota
- Lisa Wolf — Elise Weigelt
- Brigitte Grothum — Anna Weigelt
- Haruko Katō
- Mareike Carrière — Luise von Bülow
- Christoph Eichhorn — Von Meintheim
- Toru Masuoka — Kenkichi Aizawa
- Shiro Sano — Takashi Tanimura
- Takuzo Kadono — Kazusaburo Fukushima
- Rolf Hoppe — Robert Koch
- Tsutomu Yamazaki — Count Amagata
- Hans-Uwe Bauer — Fritz Krüger
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