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15 January 1979 (USA)
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In Tokyo in 1888, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adoptive son of an important actor, discovers that he is praised...
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The Mizoguchi Masterpiece
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(Credited cast)| Shôtarô Hanayagi | ... | Kikunosuke Onoue | |
| Kôkichi Takada | ... | Fukusuke Nakamura | |
| Gonjurô Kawarazaki | ... | Kikugoro Onoue | |
| Kakuko Mori | ... | Otoku | |
| Tokusaburo Arashi | ... | Shikan Nakamura | |
| Yôko Umemura | ... | Osata | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Nobuko Fushimi | ... | Onaka | |
| Kikuko Hanaoka | ... | Eiryu | |
| Kisho Hanayagi | ... | Tamisaburo Onoue | |
| Ryôtarô Kawanami | ... | Eiju Dayu | |
| Yoneko Mogami | ... | Otsura, Genshun's daughter | |
| Tamitaro Onoue | ... | Tamizo Onoue | |
| Benkei Shiganoya | ... | Genshun Amma | |
| Fujiko Shirakawa | |||
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142 min | Argentina:145 min | USA:148 min
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Referenced in Aru eiga-kantoku no shogai (1975)
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Mizoguchi's films always have a pro-feminist slant and this film of a dud actor transformed by the self-sacrifice of a women is his earliest film I have seen and is his best film. All the Mizoguchi touches are here in abundance, fluid camera movements, brutal humour, impossible love, themes that although are more pronounced in his better known films (The Life Of Oharu, Sansho The Baillif, and Ugetsu) blend seamleley together to make one of the truly great films of all time.