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is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film
directed by Koji Shima
. The movie is based on Das doppelte Lottchen, a novel later adapted as The Parent Trap
Cinema of Japan
The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world – as of 2009 the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. Movies have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived...
directed by Koji Shima
Koji Shima
was a Japanese film director, actor and screenwriter.-Career:Born as Takehiko Kagoshima in Nagasaki, Shima left for Tokyo after graduating from high school. He was in the first class of the Nihon Eiga Haiyū Gakkō and joined the Nikkatsu studio as an actor in 1925. Playing mostly romantic leads, he...
. The movie is based on Das doppelte Lottchen, a novel later adapted as The Parent Trap
The Parent Trap
The Parent Trap is a 1961 Walt Disney film. It stars Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith in a story about teenage twins and their divorced parents. The screenplay by the film's director David Swift was based upon the book Lottie and Lisa by Erich Kästner. Kastner derived his version from...
Cast
- Hibari MisoraHibari Misorawas an award-winning Japanese enka singer and actress. and was the first woman in Japan to receive the People's Honour Award, which was awarded posthumously for her notable contributions to the music industry. Misora recorded 1,200 songs, and sold 68 million records. After she died, consumer demand...
- Sō Yamamura (山村聡)
- Mitsuko Mito (水戸光子)
- Satsuki Arakawa (荒川さつき)
- Kyōji Sugi (杉狂児)
- Shinshō Kokontei (古今亭志ん生)
- Jun Miyazaki (宮崎準)
- Hikaru Hoshi (星光)
- Mantarō Ushio (潮万太郎)
- and others