Suzakumon (film)
| Suzakumon | |
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| Directed by | Kazuo Mori |
| Written by |
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| Produced by | executive producer Masaichi Nagata |
| Cinematography | Kazuo Miyagawa |
| Music by | Ichirō Saitō |
Production company | |
Release date | March 20, 1957[1] |
Running time | 100 min. |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Suzakumon (朱雀門, English title: The Love of a Princess), is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Kazuo Mori[2][3] and based on a novel by Matsutarō Kawaguchi. At the 1957 Asia-Pacific Film Festival the film won awards for best film and best cinematography (Kazuo Miyagawa). The film also won a special award at the 1958 Mainichi Film Concours.
Cast[]
- Ayako Wakao as Princess Kazu, a.k.a. Kazunomiya
- Raizo Ichikawa as Prince Arisugawa Taruhito
- Fujiko Yamamoto as Yuhide, Princess Kazu's waiting woman
- as Emperor Kōmei
- Kuniko Miyake as Tsuneko, Kazunomiya's mother
- Eijirō Tōno as Tomofusa Kunokura, Yuhide's father
- Eitaro Ozawa as Iwakura Tomomi (as Sakae Ozawa)
- as Tokugawa Iemochi
- Toshio Hosokawa as Tokugawa Yoshinobu
- as Sakai Tadaaki, the Kyoto Shoshidai
- as Honjuin, 13th Shogun's mother
- as Oriko
- as Kujō Hisatada, the Kampaku
- Eijirō Yanagi as Ryuan, Yuhide's real father
- Hisako Takihana as Tenshō-in
- Seishirō Hara as Ōmura Masujirō
- Ryosuke Kagawa as Hashimoto Sanehisa, Kazunomiya's grandfather
See also[]
References[]
- ^ (in Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1957/cg001150.htm accessed 8 January 2009
- ^ "朱雀門". 角川書店. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
- ^ "資料 監督作品一覧". kotobank. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
- ^ "朱雀門". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
External links[]
- Suzakumon at IMDb
- (in Japanese) http://www.raizofan.net/link4/movie2/kojyo.htm
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- Japanese-language films
- Japanese films
- 1957 films
- Films directed by Kazuo Mori
- Daiei Film films
- Films scored by Ichirō Saitō
- Films produced by Masaichi Nagata
- Films set in Bakumatsu
- Cultural depictions of Tokugawa Yoshinobu
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