Suzakumon (film)

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Suzakumon
Directed by Kazuo Mori
Produced by executive producer Masaichi Nagata
Written by Matsutarō Kawaguchi (novel)
Fuji Yahiro (screenplay)
Music by Ichirō Saitō
Cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa
Studio Daiei Film
Release dates 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 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 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

See also

References

  1. (Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1957/cg001150.htm accessed 8 January 2009

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