is a 1957 black-and-white

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directed by

Teinosuke Kinugasa was a Japanese filmmaker and actor. His best-known films include the Silent film, silent Experimental film, avant-garde films ''A Page of Madness'' and ''Crossroads (1928 film), Crossroads'' and the Academy Awards, Academy Award-winning historic ...

. It is an adaptation of the latter part of the classic ''

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''.

Cast

Kazuo Hasegawa , formerly known by his stage names and , was a Japanese film and stage actor. He appeared in over 300 films from 1927 to 1963. Career Born to a sake brewing family in Kyoto, he first appeared on stage at age five in a theater run by his famil ...

as Kaoru-no-kimi * Fujiko Yamamoto as Ukifune * Raizo Ichikawa as Niō-no-miya *

Nobuko Otowa was a Japanese actress who appeared in more than 100 films between 1950 and 1994. Life and career A graduate of Takarazuka Girl's Opera School, Otowa was first signed to Daiei studios, before becoming a freelance actress by the early 1950s. A ...

as Naka-no-kimi * Aiko Mimasu as Chūjō *

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as the Emperor *

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as Ukifune's Maid *

Yōko Uraji Yoko may refer to: People and fictional characters * Yoko (name), a Japanese feminine given name; variants include Yōko and Yohko, including a list of people and Japanese fictional characters (for non-Japanese characters, see the Arts and ente ...

as Ni-no-miya * Eijirō Yanagi as Minister of Shirafuji * Shunji Natsume as Ukon

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* * * Japanese black-and-white films 1957 films Films directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa Daiei Film films Films scored by Ichirō Saitō 1950s Japanese films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub