Lightning
7.5
The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with a disagreeable man whom she has rejected.
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Cast
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Hideko Takamine
Kiyoko
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Mitsuko Miura
Mitsuko
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Kyōko Kagawa
Tsubomi
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Chieko Murata
Nuiko
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Jun Negami
Shuzo
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Eitarō Ozawa
Tsunakichi
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Kumeko Urabe
Osei
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Hachiko
Chieko Nakakita
Ritsu
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Hisako Takihana
Tome
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Kenjiro Uemura
Ryuzo
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Mariko Sugioka
Katsura
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Osamu Maruyama
Kasuke
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Mikio Naruse Director · Sumie Tanaka Screenplay Fumiko Hayashi Author
First release October 9, 1952 · Produced in Japan · Production Daiei Motion Picture Co., Ltd.
Production
Daiei Film
Production
Daiei Motion Picture Co., Ltd.
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Japan
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Original title
稲妻
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · October 9, 1952
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Russia
May 9, 2001 · Limited theatrical · Retrospective of Mikio Naruse (Moscow)
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