Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to up-and-coming diplomat Munechika. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. However, she becomes enamoured with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono himself is bound by an engagement to Sayoko, daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue.
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Yukichi Iwata
Tomotaka Inoue
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ABC Lifeline
Kasuke Koizumi
Land owner
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Konishi Junsa
Anguish of a Human Being
Kuniko Miyake
Fujio Kono
Known for
Tokyo Story
Good Morning
Daijiro Natsukawa
Hajime Munechika
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The Invisible Man Appears
The Downfall of Osen
Tōichirō Negishi
Asai
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Raiden
Samurai Town Story Part I
Ayako Nijo
Itoko
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Kazuyoshi Takeda
Kingo Kono
Mitsugu Terashima
Munechika's father
Also in
The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen
Samurai Assassin
Ichirō Tsukida
Seizo Ono
Also in
The Lady and the Beard
The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
Yōko Umemura
Fujio's mother
Known for
Sisters of the Gion
Osaka Elegy
Chiyoko Ôkura
Sayako Inoue
Known for
Osaka Elegy
Kenji Mizoguchi Director · Daisuke Itō Writer Haruo Takayanagi Writer
Director
Kenji Mizoguchi
Writer
Daisuke Itō
Writer
Haruo Takayanagi
Author
Natsume Sōseki
Cinematographer
Shigeto Miki
Editor
Tazuko Sakane
Production designer
Goro Hisamitsu
Production designer
Hichiro Nishi
Production designer
Gonshiro Saito
Costume designer
Daizaburo Nakamura
Costume designer
Ozasa Shôjirô
United States release January 1, 1981 · Produced in Japan · Original title 虞美人草
Production
Daiichi Eiga
Production
Japan
Produced in
Languages
Original title
虞美人草
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · October 31, 1935
Theatrical
United States · January 1, 1981
Theatrical
France
October 13, 1993 · Theatrical
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