Immortal Love
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Immortal Love is a 1961 Japanese drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Keisuke Kinoshita
Keisuke Kinoshita
was a Japanese film director.Although lesser known internationally than his fellow filmmakers such as Akira Kurosawa , Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujirō Ozu , Keisuke Kinoshita was nonetheless a household figure at home beloved by audience and critics alike, especially in the forties through the sixties...

. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...

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Cast

  • Hideko Takamine
    Hideko Takamine
    was a Japanese actress who began as a child actor and maintained her fame in a career that spanned nine decades.-Life and career:Born in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan, Takamine's first role was in the Shochiku studio's 1929 film Mother , which brought her tremendous popularity as a child actor. Soon...

     as Sadako
  • Keiji Sada
    Keiji Sada
    was a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 7th Blue Ribbon Awards for Anata kaimasu and Taifū sōdōki. He was the father of the actor Kiichi Nakai.-Filmography:* Kane no naru oka: Dai san hen, kuro no maki...

     as Takashi
  • Tatsuya Nakadai
    Tatsuya Nakadai
    is a Japanese leading film actor.He became a star after he was discovered working as a Tokyo shop clerk by filmmaker Masaki Kobayashi during the early 1950s...

     as Heibei
  • Nobuko Otowa
    Nobuko Otowa
    Nobuko Otowa was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in 134 films between 1950 and 1994. She was married to film director Kaneto Shindō...

     as Tomoko, Takashi's wife
  • Akira Ishihama as Yutaka, Takashi's son
  • Yukiko Fuji as Naoko, Sadako's daughter
  • Kiyoshi Nonomura as Rikizo, Takashi's brother
  • Yoshi Kato
    Yoshi Kato
    Yoshi Kato was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in 92 films between 1950 and 1988.-Selected filmography:* The Rice People * Zero Focus * Immortal Love...

     as Sojiro, Sadako's father
  • Yasushi Nagata as Heizaemon, Heibei's father
  • Torahiko Hamada as Mr. Koshinuma
  • Masakazu Tamura
    Masakazu Tamura
    is a Japanese film and theatre actor.-Profile:Masakazu Tamura was born 1 August 1943 in Kyoto, Japan to Japanese actor Tsumasaburō Bandō. His brothers Takahiro and Ryō are also actors...

     as Eiichi, Sadako's son
  • Masaya Totsuka as Morito, Sadako's son
  • Eijirô Tono
    Eijirô Tono
    was a Japanese actor who took supporting roles in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Yojimbo , as well as Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story and An Autumn Afternoon ....

     as Policeman

See also

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