The read
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 88% of the 198 1930s romance movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
In late 19th-century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that the praise he receives is only due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully joins him.
Ratings
IMDb7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes94%
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do.
133 audience votes
Key crew
- Kenji MizoguchiDirector
- Yoshikata YodaScreenplay
- Matsutarō KawaguchiScreenplay
- Senji ItoOriginal Music Composer
- Shiro FukaiOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Shōtarō HanayagiKikunosuke Onoue
- Kakuko MoriOtoku
- Kōkichi TakadaFukusuke Nakamura
- Kinnosuke TakamatsuMatsusuke Onoue
- Gonjurô KawarazakiKikugoro Onoue
- Benkei ShiganoyaMasseur Genshun
- Kikuko HanaokaGeisha Konaka
- Nobuko FushimiGeisha Eiryu
- Ichiro YukiHotel lodger
- Tokusaburo ArashiShikan Nakamura
- Yōko UmemuraOsata
- Ryôtarô KawanamiEiju Dayu
Stills
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Themes
forbidden loveosaka, japantokyo, japankabuki19th centuryadopted sontheatrical troupe
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