Suzakumon (film)
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| Directed by | Kazuo Mori |
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| Produced by | executive producer Masaichi Nagata |
| Cinematography | Kazuo Miyagawa |
| Music by | Ichirō Saitō |
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Release date |
March 20, 1957 |
Running time |
100 min. |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Suzakumon (朱雀門, English title: The Love of a Princess), is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Kazuo Mori and based on a novel by Matsutarō Kawaguchi. At the 1957 Asia-Pacific Film Festival the film won awards for best film and best cinematography (Kazuo Miyagawa). The film also won a special award at the 1958 Mainichi Film Concours.
Cast
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- Ayako Wakao as Princess Kazu, a.k.a. Kazunomiya
- Raizo Ichikawa as Prince Arisugawa Taruhito
- Fujiko Yamamoto as Yuhide, Princess Kazu's waiting woman
- Shunji Natsume as Emperor Kōmei
- Kuniko Miyake as Tsuneko, Kazunomiya's mother
- Eijirō Tōno as Tomofusa Kunokura, Yuhide's father
- Eitaro Ozawa as Iwakura Tomomi (as Sakae Ozawa)
- Yoichi Funaki as Tokugawa Iemochi
- Toshio Hosokawa as Tokugawa Yoshinobu
- Masao Mishima as Sakai Tadaaki, the Kyoto Shoshidai
- Kikue Mōri as Honjuin, 13th Shogun's mother
- Kimiko Tachibana as Oriko
- Hisao Toake as Kujō Hisatada, the Kampaku
- Eijirō Yanagi as Ryuan, Yuhide's real father
- Hisako Takihana as Tenshō-in
- Seishirō Hara as Ōmura Masujirō
- Ryosuke Kagawa as Hashimoto Sanehisa, Kazunomiya's grandfather