Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954)
Chikamatsu monogatari
The tortured heart behind the cultivated image.
102 min
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.
- Release date
- November 23, 1954
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Music
- Fumio Hayasaka, Tamezô Mochizuki
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Cast
- Kazuo Hasegawa as Mohei
- Kyōko Kagawa as Osan
- Eitarō Shindō as Ishun
- Eitarō Ozawa as Sukeemon
- Yōko Minamida as Otama
- Haruo Tanaka as Dôki
- Chieko Naniwa as Okô
- Ichirō Sugai as Gembê
- Tatsuya Ishiguro as Isan
- Hiroshi Mizuno as Kuroki
- Hisao Toake as Morinokôji
- Ikkei Tamaki as Jushiro Umegaki
- Keiko Koyanagi as Okaya
- Kanae Kobayashi as Otatsu
- Tadashi Iwata as Chushichi
- Ichirô Amano as Blind Musician
- Kōichi Katsuragi as Priest
- Shinobu Araki as Courtier
- Ryônosuke Azuma
- Saburô Date as Katada Government Official
- Jun Fujikawa as Village Government Official
- Takaji Fukui as Fushimi Government Official
- Sumao Ishihara as Inn Head Clerk
Crew
- Kenji Mizoguchi · Director
- Kyuichi Tsuji · Writer
- Monzaemon Chikamatsu · Writer
- Matsutarō Kawaguchi · Writer
- Yoshikata Yoda · Writer
- Masaichi Nagata · Producer
- Fumio Hayasaka · Composer
- Tamezô Mochizuki · Composer
- Kazuo Miyagawa · Cinematographer
- Kanji Suganuma · Editor
- Hisakazu Tsuji · Production designer