How the Bell of Liberty Rings

How the Bell of Liberty Rings (1954)

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Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English. Despite facing opposition from his family and nationalist factions, he founds Keio University, becoming a key figure in Japan's modernization amid political turmoil.

Director: Hisatora Kumagai
Writers: Hisatora Kumagai, Dai Nishijima.

Casts

	Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi as Masujiro Ohmura
	Chieko Higashiyama as Yukichi's Mother Ojun
	Chieko Nakakita as Tau
	Fuyuki Murakami as Yoshimasu Takahashi
	Akira Takarada as Masuda Sotaro
	Kurôemon Onoe as Yukichi Fukuzawa
	Shizuko Azuma as Yukichi's Wife Nishiki
	Yoshiko Kayama as Eldest daughter Ichitaro
	Masayuki Ohta as Second son: Sutejiro
	Mitsuo Sugimoto as Yukichi's older brother Sannosuke
	Yûko Togawa as sister-in-law
	Toranosuke Ogawa as uncle
	Eiko Miyoshi as aunt
	Toshio Takahara as Shukichi Okamoto
	Senkichi Ōmura as Seisaku Tezuka
	Shōichi Hirose as Keisuke Ohtori
	Yo Shiomi as Ogata Koan
	Ren Yamamoto as Eiji Asabuki
	Bin Moritsuka as Atsujiro Obata
	Koji Suzuki as Obata Nizaburo
	Daisuke Inoue as Nakagamigawa Hikojiro
	Motohisa Nakashiro as Kazuma Yamagami
	Tsuneo Katagiri as Kazuma's father, Judayu
	Kôji Uno as Hattori Asanosuke
	Sachio Sakai as Kenichiro Hamamura
	Okayu Taka as Katase Kingo
	Michio Sakurai as Kanjuro Tsukada
	Akira Yamada as Satoshi Nomura
	Tatsuo Sakurai as Ichijou Makoto
	Akira Tani as Woodcutter
	Maki Soukichi as Yamamoto Monojiro
	Ichirō Chiba as Gorobei Hattori
	Ichirō Tate as Okuhira Iki
	Kiyoshi Kamoda as Kuwana Guma
	Ren Imaizumi as Samurai Mizushima
	Katao Kawasaki as Tool Shop
	Takeshi Katō as Ronin on the ship
	Takamaru Sasaki as Samurai passing each other
	Mitsue Tachibana as geisha
	Masako Nijo as Omitsu
	Tatsuya Nakadai as (uncredited)

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