Bijo to touzoku 1952

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.

Cast:

Machiko Kyō
Sakin 

Masayuki Mori
Kuroki no Taro 

Rentaro Mikuni
Kuroki no Jiro 

Takashi Shimura
Yoshimichi 

Minoru Chiaki
Takeichi no Takamaru 

Bokuzen Hidari
 

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