Yonjū-hassai no teikō (1956)
A literary masterpiece that sharply critiques the ethics of modern romance, featuring a 48-year-old father who burns through the last of his youth with a teenage girl, and a daughter in her twenties who falls in love with a younger man and champions sexual liberation.
Director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura
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So Yamamura as |
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Haruko Sugimura as |
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Ayako Wakao as |
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Michiko Ono as |
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Hiroshi Kawaguchi as |
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Eiji Funakoshi as |
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Izumi Yukimura as |
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Chieko Murata as |
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Tatsuya Ishiguro as |
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Ken Mitsuda as |
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Mitsuko Takesato as |
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Kōichi Itō as |
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Fujio Harumoto as |
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Mantarō Ushio as |
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Eniko Seto as |
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Chizuko Ohama as |
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Yoshihiko Kanazawa as |
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Eiichi Takamura as |
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Aiko Mishima as |
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Tsuneko Sudō as |
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Tadashi Date as |
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Michiko Miyato as |
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Mariko Ogasawara as |
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Kikuko Tachibana as |
| Directing | Kōzaburō Yoshimura | Director |
| Writing | Kaneto Shindō | Adaptation |
| Writing | Tatsuzō Ishikawa | Original Story |
| Production | Haruo Kawasaki | Producer |
| Production | Masaichi Nagata | Producer |
| Camera | Yoshihisa Nakagawa | Director of Photography |
| Art | Shigeo Mano | Art Direction |
| Sound | Sei Ikeno | Music |
| Sound | Kunio Hashimoto | Sound Recordist |
| Lighting | Shozo Izumi | Lighting Technician |