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The Golden Demon (1954)
Directed by Kōji Shima
Drama · 1h 35m
Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter of Kan-ichi's debtor) is canceled to enable Miya to marry Tomiyama, a wealthy banker's son. In bitter despair, Kan-ichi breaks with his friends, drops his studies, and declares he has ceased to be human. He apprentices to a money-lender, and he's soon ruthless and wealthy. Several years later, Miya's in misery, her husband mistreats her. She goes to Kan-ichi to beg forgiveness; he pushes her away. He's now pursued by Akagashi, herself a cold-hearted loan shark. Can anything free Kan-ichi's hard heart from the golden demon
Cast
Jun Negami
Fujiko Yamamoto
Kenji Sugawara
Mitsuko Mito
Eiji Funakoshi
Shizue Natsukawa
Kumeko Urabe
Kinzō Shin
Chikako Hosokawa
Crew
- Director
- Kōji Shima
- Writer
- Kōji Shima
- Novel
- Koyo Ozaki
- Director of Photography
- Michio Takahashi
- Original Music Composer
- Ichirō Saitō
- Editor
- Masanori Tsujii
- Producer
- Masaichi Nagata
Details
- Original title
- 金色夜叉
- Release date
- 1954-03-21
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Daiei Film