The Garden of Women (1954)
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- 2h 21min
- Drama
- 16 Mar 1954 (Japan)
- Movie
- 8 wins & 1 nomination.
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Cast
Mieko Takamine | ... |
Mayumi Gojô
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Hideko Takamine | ... |
Yoshie Izushi
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Keiko Kishi | ... |
Tomiko Takioka
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Yoshiko Kuga | ... |
Akiko Hayashino
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Takahiro Tamura | ... |
Sankichi Shimoda
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Masami Taura | ... |
Yoshikazu Sagara
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Takashi Miki | ... |
Masao Izushi
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Kuniko Igawa | ... |
Yoshie's Sister
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Yûko Mochizuki | ... |
Landlady
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Chieko Higashiyama | ... |
Schoolmaster
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Kikue Môri | ... |
President
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Chieko Naniwa | ... |
Proprietress of the Restaurant
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Nobuo Kaneko | ... |
Yoshihei Hirato
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Kappei Matsumoto | ... |
Yoshie's Father
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Kazuko Yamamoto | ... |
Toshiko
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Kazuko Okada | ... |
Sankichi's Mother
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Isao Suenaga | ... |
Reporter
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Mariko Aoyama | ... |
Professor
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Izumi Hara | ... |
Professor
(as Senko Hara)
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Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Hideyo Amamoto | ... |
Professor (uncredited)
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Tokuko Sugiyama | ... |
Arai (uncredited)
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Directed by
Keisuke Kinoshita |
Written by
Tomoji Abe | ... | (story) |
Keisuke Kinoshita | ... | () |
Produced by
Takeshi Yamamoto | ... | producer |
Music by
Chûji Kinoshita |
Cinematography by
Hiroshi Kusuda |
Editing by
Yoshi Sugihara |
Art Direction by
Kimihiko Nakamura |
Set Decoration by
Setsutarô Moriya |
Costume Design by
Taizô Saitô |
Production Management
Masaharu Kokaji | ... | production supervisor |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Yoshirô Kawazu | ... | assistant director |
Art Department
Kakuzô Sasu | ... | set designer |
Sound Department
Shûzô Horikawa | ... | sound effects editor |
Hideo Nishizaki | ... | sound recordist |
Hisao Ôno | ... | sound |
Camera and Electrical Department
Ryôichi Arano | ... | assistant camera |
Kiyoharu Sudô | ... | lighting technician |
Ryôzô Toyoshima | ... | gaffer |
Additional Crew
Yoshio Nakahara | ... | film development |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Shochiku (1954) (Japan) (theatrical)
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Storyline
Plot Summary |
Established in 1908 by its current President, Shorin's Women's College in Kyoto is a private institution of higher learning - a boarding school - although most treat it as a glorified finishing school for the primarily wealthy student body to emerge as suitable candidates of wives for prominent husbands. The policies and teachings of the school are old fashioned, strict and repressive, almost like the students are in a jail without the locks. The policies and teachings are all under the guise of the administrators caring for the girls, whereas they are arguably most concerned about the view of the school to the outside world, they relying on donations from wealthy industrialists to survive. As the administrator with who they deal most often, the girls see as the primary face of that oppression being the dormitory matron, Mayumi Gojô. Most of the students want more humane conditions at the school, but the administrators are able to use whatever dissent that emerges from the students against them, in dividing and conquering based partly on lies and partly on different motivations of the students. The stories of two of those very different students are told in their fight for a better life at the school. One is Akiko Hayashino, largely seen by the students and the administrators as the chief agitator, some believing she being a card carrying Communist, any political thought which is contrary to policy. The daughter of a wealthy industrialist, she is given much leeway as her father is one of the school's chief benefactors, and as she holds damaging information about some at the school in her privileged state. Two is working class Yoshie Izushi, whose father is trying to arrange her marriage to a prominent businessman, whereas she truly wants to learn - she having difficulties catching up after being away for three terms needing to work - and eventually marry her poor activist boyfriend, Sankichi Shimoda, with who her father won't even allow her to associate. Written by Huggo |
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Did You Know?
Trivia | The director of this film, Keisuke Kinoshita, was regarded by both critics and the public as being engaged in an ongoing professional rivalry with his good friend Akira Kurosawa, because, among other reasons, both filmmakers had directed their debut films in the same year, 1943. (It was Kinoshita who won the Best New Director prize for that year.) In the Best Ten critics poll held by the cinema magazine Kinema Junpo for films released in 1954, this film placed second, beating Kurosawa's most ambitious film up to that time, Seven Samurai (1954), which placed third. In addition, the film that topped the poll that year was another Kinoshita work, the classic Twenty-Four Eyes (1954). (Kinoshita died in 1998, the same year as Kurosawa.) See more » |
Movie Connections | Featured in 100 Years of Japanese Cinema (1995). See more » |
Quotes |
Tomiko Takioka:
I have the right to reject what I dislike. You made it hard for me to go home. What did I do wrong? I'm no longer a child! See more » |