Passion Fire

Passion Fire (1952)

Drama

The time was the first year of Keio (1865). Upon hearing the news that the Imperial Army was approaching Hida Takayama, the district head Shimizu Uzen fled to Edo. Local officials like Yoshida Bunsuke and Yoshizumi Hironoshin showed their allegiance by welcoming them. The commander at the time, Umemura Hayami, was a former member of the Tengu Party and had previously been pursued in the town. He took refuge in a restaurant named Kabuya, and owing to a tip-off from a woman named Oraku, he was almost captured for her lover, Yoshizumi. Oraku and Yoshizumi probably feared revenge from that previous encounter, but Umemura had come back to Hida because he couldn't forget Oraku.

Director: Hideo Ōba
Writers: Takao Yanai, Hyōgo Suzuki.

Casts

	Masao Wakahara as 梅村速水
	Michiyo Kogure as 合羽屋おらく
	Hizuru Takachiho as つる
	So Yamamura as 奥田金馬太郎
	Minoru Ōki as 郷土弥平
	Daijiro Natsukawa as 吉住弘之進
	Eijirō Yanagi as 吉田文助
	Hisano Yamato as 文助の妻
	Hiroshi Aoyama as 押上屋
	Kodayu Ichikawa as 新見内膳
	Kunitaro Sawamura as 東征軍隊長大村
	Joji Kaieda as 脇田
	Kenzō Tanaka as 山田
	Mitsuo Nagata as 村上俊介
	Eiichi Nozawa as 川上屋

Crew