Sumida River
Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big stars like Hasegawa or Bando. "Sumidagawa", named after the river that runs through Tokyo, is also a period film, but thematically a modern one. All the themes that you associate with the normal Shochiku women's films set in the present day are in this film, just in a different context: love, the planning of a marriage, career, family relations and societal melancholy. There is no action or swordplay.
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Cast
15 people
Shusuke Agata
Kōji Mitsui
Known for
Woman in the Dunes
A Story of Floating Weeds
Fumiko Okamura
Known for
Scandal
A Hen in the Wind
Tatsuo Saitō
Known for
I Was Born, But...
Lord Jim
Ken Uehara
Known for
Repast
Mothra
Hiroko Kawasaki
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Ornamental Hairpin
Walk Cheerfully
Hideo Fujino
Also in
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
ABC Lifeline
Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Known for
I Was Born, But...
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Takeshi Sakamoto
Known for
A Story of Floating Weeds
I Was Born, But...
Seiji Nishimura
Known for
I Was Born, But...
There Was a Father
Tetsu Tsuboi
Known for
A Page of Madness
Setsuko Shinobu
Also in
Street Without End
Mr. Thank You
Kintaro Inoue Director · Toshio Tamikado Writer Matsutarō Kawaguchi Story
First release September 3, 1942 · Produced in Japan · Original title すみだ川
Production
Shochiku
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Japan
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Original title
すみだ川
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · September 3, 1942
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No release date listed for United States.
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