The read
It runs a compact 1h 14m.
Synopsis
Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.
Ratings
IMDb7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes80%
14 audience votes
Key crew
- Mikio NaruseDirector
- Mikio NaruseWriter
- Noboru ItōOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Sachiko ChibaKimiko Yamamoto
- Yuriko HanabusaOyuki
- Toshiko ItōEtsuko Yamamoto
- Setsuko HorikoshiShizuko (Oyuki's daughter)
- Sadao MaruyamaShunsaku Yamamoto
- Heihachirō ŌkawaSeiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
- Kaoru ItōKenichi (Oyuki's son)
- Kamatari FujiwaraShingo (Kimiko's uncle)
- Chikako HosokawaShingo's wife
Stills
Themes
goldpoetrygeishamountainmarriagebased on play or musicaltokyo, japanhaikusmall village