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Poppy (1935)
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
Drama, Romance · 1h 12m
Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to up-and-coming diplomat Munechika. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. However, she becomes enamoured with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono himself is bound by an engagement to Sayoko, daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue.
Cast
Yukichi Iwata
Tomotaka Inoue
Kasuke Koizumi
Land owner
Kuniko Miyake
Fujio Kono
Daijiro Natsukawa
Hajime Munechika
T
Tōichirō Negishi
Asai
A
Ayako Nijo
Itoko
K
Kazuyoshi Takeda
Kingo Kono
M
Mitsugu Terashima
Munechika's father
Ichirō Tsukida
Seizo Ono
Yōko Umemura
Fujio's mother
Chiyoko Ôkura
Sayako Inoue
Crew
- Director
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Writer
- Daisuke Itō, Haruo Takayanagi
- Director of Photography
- Shigeto Miki
- Editor
- Tazuko Sakane
- Producer
- Masaichi Nagata
Details
- Original title
- 虞美人草
- Release date
- 1935-10-31
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Daiichi Eiga