Actress

Name: Actress
Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa
Genre: Drama
Released: 1947-12-29T
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 0.0
Cast: Isuzu Yamada, Yoshi Hijikata, Ranko Akagi, Noriko Sengoku, Fusako Fujima

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Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The relationship leads to the end of his marriage and the breakup of his Arts Society. This is another version of Kenji Mizoguchi's film "The Love of Sumako the Actress" ("Joyû Sumako no koi"), from the same year. Both tells the story of the famous actress Sumako Mitsui (1886-1919), considered the first great modern theater actress in Japan. Mizoguchi himself is said to have preferred Kinugasa's version.

Actor: Isuzu Yamada, Yoshi Hijikata, Ranko Akagi, Noriko Sengoku, Fusako Fujima, Hajime Izu, Eitarō Shindō, Shin Date, Kenji Susukida, Tatsuya Ishiguro

Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa

Years: 1947

Country: Japan

Quality: HD

Production: TOHO

Actress

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