Taira Clan Saga (1955)
新・平家物語
Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba and the monks of Mount Hiei.
- Date of release
- 1955-09-21
- TMDB
- 6.8 / 10 (33)
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Director
- Kenji Mizoguchi
Casting
- Raizō Ichikawa — Taira Kiyomori
- Yoshiko Kuga — Tokiko
- Naritoshi Hayashi — Taira Torodai
- Michiyo Kogure — Yasuko
- Ichijirō Oya — Taira no Tadamori
- Tatsuya Ishiguro — Fujiwara no Tokinobu
- Akitake Kōno — Heiroku
- Tamao Nakamura — Shigeko
- Shunji Natsume — Emperor Toba
- Mitsusaburō Ramon — Ryokan
- Kunitaro Sawamura — Joku
- Koreya Senda
Interesting facts
Shin Heike Monogatari is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It is based on a prose version by Eiji Yoshikawa of a Japanese epic poem, The Tale of the Heike. It is Mizoguchi's second and last film in color, the other being Princess Yang Kwei Fei (Yōkihi) of the same year.
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