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The Romance of Yushima (1955)
Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa
Drama · 1h 56m
Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after Hayase lost his parents in a war. Hayase has been secretly married to Otsuta, a former geisha, and has been unable to tell Sakai of the marriage, aware as he is that Sakai wants him to marry his daughter, Taeko. Otsuta wants Hayase to tell Sakai about her, but understands the difficulty of his position. At a festival, Otsuta is mistaken for a pickpocket and taken to the police. Because of her background as a geisha, newspaper reporters eagerly delve into her past and report that she has been married to Hayase. Unaware of what has been printed in the papers, Hayase decides to tell Sakai about his marriage. Sakai shows the newspaper to him and orders Hayase to part with Otsuta. Given no chance to explain, Hayase accepts Sakai's order.
Cast
Fujiko Yamamoto
Koji Tsuruta
Masayuki Mori
Yasuko Kawakami
Kikuko Tachibana
Kiyoko Hirai
Yoshiko Fujita
Haruko Sugimura
Hideo Takamatsu
Hiroko Machida
Daisuke Katō
Crew
- Director
- Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Screenplay
- Teinosuke Kinugasa, Jun Sagara
- Novel
- Izumi Kyōka
- Director of Photography
- Kimio Watanabe
- Original Music Composer
- Ichirō Saitō
- Producer
- Asata Fujii
Details
- Original title
- 婦系図湯島の白梅
- Release date
- 1955-09-28
- Runtime
- 1h 56m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Daiei Film