DramaRomance
Chikamatsu Monogatari
“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.
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
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Status
Released
Released
November 23, 1954
Runtime
1h 42m
Language
Japanese
Top cast
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
Kimiko Tachibana
Umetatsu Akamatsu
Keiko Koyanagi
Okaya
Sayako Nakagami
Osono
Kanae Kobayashi
Otatsu
Shiro Miura
Worker
Nobuko Tanei
Young Girl
Sōji Shibata
Worker
Satoshi Mikami
Worker
