Suzakumon (film)

Suzakumon (朱雀門), English title: The Love of a Princess, is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Kazuo Mori and based on novel by Matsutarō Kawaguchi.

The film won 1957 Asia-Pacific Film Festival for best cinematography (Kazuo Miyagawa) and best film. The film also won 1958 special award at Mainichi Film Concours.

Cast

• Ayako Wakao as Princess Chikako, The Princess Kazu (和宮 親子内親王, Kazu-no-miya Chikako naishinnō)
• Raizo Ichikawa as Prince Arisugawa Taruhito
• Fujiko Yamamoto as Yuhide, Princess Kazu's waiting woman
• Shunji Natsume as Emperor Kōmei
• Kuniko Miyake as Kyoko, Kazunomiya's mother (Tsuneko Hashimoto)
• Eijiro Tono as Tomofusa Kunokura, Yuhide's father
• Eitaro Ozawa as Iwakura (as Sakae Ozawa)
• Yoichi Funaki as Ieshige Tokunaga
• Toshio Hosokawa as Yoshitsune Tokugawa
• Masao Mishima as Tadayoshi Sakai (Sakai Tadaaki)
• Kikue Mōri as Honjuin, 13th Shogun's mother
• Kimiko Tachibana as Oriko
• Hisao Toake as Kujo
• Eijirō Yanagi as Ryuan, Yuhide's real father
• and others

See also

• Suzakumon

References

External links

• (Japanese) http://www.raizofan.net/link4/movie2/kojyo.htm
• Suzakumon at the Internet Movie Database