Beauty and the Thief

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.

• Keigo KimuraDirector
• Keigo KimuraScreenplay

• Machiko KyōSakin
• Masayuki MoriKuroki no Taro
• Rentaro MikuniKuroki no Jiro
• Takashi ShimuraYoshimichi
• Minoru ChiakiTakeichi no Takamaru
• Bokuzen HidariCast
• Yūnosuke ItōDohachi
• Tanie KitabayashiMrs. Inokuma
• Yūko MochizukiKotora
• Ichirō SugaiMr. Inokuma
• Eijirō TōnoJurota