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Beauty and the Thief (1952)

Genre : Adventure, Drama, History

Runtime : 1H 20M

Director : Keigo Kimura
Writer : Keigo Kimura

Synopsis

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.

Actors

Machiko Kyō
Machiko Kyō
Sakin
Masayuki Mori
Masayuki Mori
Kuroki no Taro
Rentaro Mikuni
Rentaro Mikuni
Kuroki no Jiro
Takashi Shimura
Takashi Shimura
Yoshimichi
Minoru Chiaki
Minoru Chiaki
Takeichi no Takamaru
Bokuzen Hidari
Bokuzen Hidari
Yūnosuke Itō
Yūnosuke Itō
Dohachi
Tanie Kitabayashi
Tanie Kitabayashi
Mrs. Inokuma
Yūko Mochizuki
Yūko Mochizuki
Kotora
Ichirō Sugai
Ichirō Sugai
Mr. Inokuma
Eijirô Tôno
Eijirô Tôno
Jurota

Crews

Keigo Kimura
Keigo Kimura
Director
Keigo Kimura
Keigo Kimura
Screenplay
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Novel
Yasuichiro Yamazaki
Yasuichiro Yamazaki
Director of Photography

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