Utamaro and His Five Women

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Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi

Drama · 1h 34m

Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the Tokyo brothels provide his models. A world of passion swirls around him, as the women vie for lovers, and, occasionally, his art gets him into trouble.

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Cast

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Bandō Mitsugorō VIII Utamaro Kinuyo Tanaka Okita Kōtarō Bandō Seinosuke Hiroko Kawasaki Oran Toshiko Iizuka Takasode
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Kyōko Kusajima Oman
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Eiko Ohara Yukie
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Shôtarô Nakamura Shozaburo
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Kiniko Shiratao Oshin
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Minpei Tomimoto Takemaro

Crew

Director
Kenji Mizoguchi
Writer
Yoshikata Yoda
Novel
Kanji Kunieda
Director of Photography
Shigeto Miki
Original Music Composer
Tamezō Mochizuki, Hisato Osawa
Editor
Shintarō Miyamoto
Producer
Hisao Itoya

Details

Original title
歌麿をめぐる五人の女
Release date
1946-12-17
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Drama
Original language
JA
Spoken languages
Japanese
Countries
Japan
Production
Shochiku