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is a 1967 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 Noboru Nakamura and based on a poem by the Japanese poet and sculptor Kōtarō Takamura

Kotaro Takamura

was a Japanese poet and sculptor.-Biography:Kōtarō was the son of Takamura Kōun, a renowned Japanese sculptor.He graduated from the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1902, where he studied sculpture...

. 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...

Cast

Shima Iwashita as Chieko Takamura
Tetsurô Tanba as Kotaro Takamura
Jin Nakayama as Toshu Takamura
Hiroshi Akutagawa as Poems read by
Yôko Minamida
Yoko Minamida
was a Japanese actress. She was diagnosed with Alzheimers in November 2008, and a TV documentary was made about her condition and the efforts of her husband, actor Hiroyuki Nagato, to care for her...

as Kazuko
Eiji Okada
Eiji Okada
Eiji Okada was a Japanese film actor. Okada served in the Japanese army during World War II, and was a miner and traveling salesman before becoming an actor....

as Tsubaki
Mikijiro Hira as Ishii
Kaori Shima
Takamaru Sasaki as Koun Takamura
Tetsuo Ishidate as Taro
Kinuko Obata as Osato
Yoshi Katô
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 Sokichi Naganuma

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