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| Shôtarô Hanayagi | ... | Kikunosuke Onoue | |
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Kôkichi Takada | ... | Fukusuke Nakamura |
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Ryôtarô Kawanami | ... | Eiju Dayu |
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Kinnosuke Takamatsu | ... | Matsusuke Onoue |
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Jun'nosuke Hayama | ... | Kanya Morita |
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Tamitaro Onoue | ... | Tamizô Onoue |
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Ichirô Yûki | ... | Guest in waiting room |
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Kômei Minami | ... | Shintomi greenroom manager |
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Jin'ichi Amano | ... | Shintomi's onnagata |
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Haruo Inoue | ... | Actor |
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Sumao Ishihara | ... | Manager of the travelling company |
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Kô Hirota | ... | Greenroom manager of the travelling company |
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Minpei Tomimoto | ... | Guest in waiting room |
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Eijirô Hose | ... | Travelling actor |
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Nobuko Fushimi | ... | Eiryû, a geisha |
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In Tokyo in 1888, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adoptive son of an important actor, discovers that he is praised for his acting only because he is his father's heir, and that the troupe complains how bad he is behind his back. The only person to talk to him honestly about his acting is Otoku, the wet-nurse of his adoptive father's child. She is fired by the family, and Kikunosuke is forbidden to see her, because of the gossip a relationship with a servant would cause. Kikunosuke falls in love with Otoku, and leaves home to try to make a living on his own merits outside Tokyo. He is eventually joined by Otoku, who encourages him to become a famous actor to regain the recognition of his family. Written by Will Gilbert
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Masterfully directed, Kenji Mizoguchi shows the beauty and tragedy, both faces of sacrifice. The beauty of sacrificing entirely for someone and the tragedy of becomeing nothing else than that, and accepting, at the end of the day, every consecuence of It. This is one of this cases in which, somehow, the movie manages to get deep inside me. It was really nice to get the chance to see this masterpiece of altruistic human solidary act on big screen.