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Chikamatsu Monogatari

Original title: 近松物語

The tortured heart behind the cultivated image.

  • Movie
  • 1954
  • 1h 42m

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi

7.8

TMDB audience rating
7.8 out of 10 from 158 votes

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Overview

When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves truly falling for one another.

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Cast and crew

  • Kazuo Hasegawa

    Kazuo HasegawaMohei

  • Kyōko Kagawa

    Kyōko KagawaOsan

  • Eitarō Shindō

    Eitarō ShindōIshun

  • Eitarō Ozawa

    Eitarō OzawaSukeemon

  • Yōko Minamida

    Yōko MinamidaOtama

  • Haruo Tanaka

    Haruo TanakaGifuya Dôki

  • Chieko Naniwa

    Chieko NaniwaOkô

  • Ichirō Sugai

    Ichirō SugaiGembei

  • Tatsuya Ishiguro

    Tatsuya IshiguroIsan

  • Hiroshi MizunoKuroki

  • Hisao Toake

    Hisao ToakeMorinokoji

  • Ikkei Tamaki

    Ikkei TamakiJushiro Umegaki

  • Kimiko Tachibana

    Kimiko TachibanaUmetatsu Akamatsu

  • Keiko Koyanagi

    Keiko KoyanagiOkaya

  • Sayako NakagamiOsono

  • Kanae Kobayashi

    Kanae KobayashiOtatsu

  • Shiro MiuraWorker

  • Nobuko Tanei

    Nobuko TaneiYoung Girl

Director
Kenji Mizoguchi
Writer
Yoshikata Yoda and Matsutarō Kawaguchi
Music
Fumio Hayasaka and Tamezō Mochizuki
Cinematography
Kazuo Miyagawa