情艶一代女
情艶一代女
Release: 1951-02-03
·Runtime: 90m
Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins training with the Onnagata Kikugoro VI as a dancer. She leaves her geisha life to pursue this new path, but falls in love with a naval officer who is the younger brother of Kikugoro and who saves her from a stalker monk. Kikugoro hears of this and becomes enraged. The naval officer dies in the Second Sino-Japanese War, causing the lead to go back home to her mother where she meets, and falls in love with, a poet who resembles her now-deceased fiancé. This poet leaves her in order to force her to dedicate her entire life to dancing, which he sees as her true pursuit.
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
TOHO
Cast
Mitsuko Yoshikawa
as おたけ
Mitsue Tachibana
as 君太郎
Reikichi Kawamura
as 足袋銀
Kichijirō Ueda
as 鬼酔和尚
Toyo Takahashi
as おつた
Ichirō Ryūzaki
as 高島達之助, 山村耕一
Shōtarō Hanayagi
as 六代目菊五郎
Shizue Natsukawa
as 菊五郎夫人
Ichirō Izawa
as 山田蕉風
Chōko Iida
as おしん
Ryuji Kita
as 小山内薫
Roppa Furukawa
as 山吹周吉
Keiko Orihara
as 妹由起子
