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The Tale of Genji (1951)
Directed by Kōzaburō Yoshimura
Drama · 2h 04m
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his heart is broken by Awaji does Genji realizes how much pain he himself has caused.
Cast
Kazuo Hasegawa
Hikaru Genji
Denjirō Ōkōchi
Takuma nyudo
Michiyo Kogure
Fujitsubo
Mitsuko Mito
Aoi no ue
Machiko Kyō
Awaji no ue
Nobuko Otowa
Murasaki no ue
Yūji Hori
Yumiko Hasegawa
Oborozukiyo
Chieko Sōma
Kiritsubo
Yuriko Hanabusa
Kiritsubo's mother
Chieko Higashiyama
Lady Kokiden
Kōtarō Bandō
To no Chujo
Crew
- Director
- Kōzaburō Yoshimura
- Writer
- Kaneto Shindō
- Novel
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Director of Photography
- Kōhei Sugiyama
- Original Music Composer
- Akira Ifukube
Details
- Original title
- 源氏物語
- Release date
- 1951-06-11
- Runtime
- 2h 04m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Daiei Film