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Actress (1947)

ALL 12/29/1947 (ja) Drama 116 Min
  • Release
    12/29/1947
  • Production
    TOHO
  • Rotten tomato
    0%
  • Original title
    女優
  • Original language
    ja
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The relationship leads to the end of his marriage and the breakup of his Arts Society. This is another version of Kenji Mizoguchi's film "The Love of Sumako the Actress" ("Joyû Sumako no koi"), from the same year. Both tells the story of the famous actress Sumako Mitsui (1886-1919), considered the first great modern theater actress in Japan. Mizoguchi himself is said to have preferred Kinugasa's version.

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Keiji Matsuzaki

    Producer



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  1. Isuzu Yamada

    Sumako Matsui

  2. Yoshi Hijikata

    Hōgetsu Shimamura

  3. Ranko Akagi

    Mrs. Itsuko

  4. Noriko Sengoku

    daughter Kuniko

  5. Fusako Fujima

    Chika, Itoko's mother

  6. Hajime Izu

    Tetsuo Mizushima

  7. Eitarō Shindō

    Dr. Okubo

  8. Shin Date

    Kiyozumi

  9. Kenji Susukida

    Keisuke Fukuhara

  10. Tatsuya Ishiguro

    Yozo Hirai

  11. Hyo Kitazawa

    Shirō Haruta

  12. Yumi Takano

    Kyōko Totsuka

  13. Yasushi Nagata

    Hiroo Takahama

  14. Takashi Shimura

    Genshirō Kuramoto

  15. Masao Mishima

    Heisuke Gakuyaban

  16. Akitake Kôno

    Haruyoshi Kobayashi

  17. Fudeko Tanaka

    Playing the shamisen

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Casts : 17 , Crews : 6

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Actress (1947) 116 Min

ALL 12/29/1947 (ja)
Drama
  • Release 12/29/1947
  • Production
    TOHO
  • Original title 女優
  • ja
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The relationship leads to the end of his marriage and the breakup of his Arts Society. This is another version of Kenji Mizoguchi's film "The Love of Sumako the Actress" ("Joyû Sumako no koi"), from the same year. Both tells the story of the famous actress Sumako Mitsui (1886-1919), considered the first great modern theater actress in Japan. Mizoguchi himself is said to have preferred Kinugasa's version.

  1. Teinosuke Kinugasa

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Keiji Matsuzaki

    Producer



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