Beauty and the Thief (1952)
The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.
Director:
Keigo Kimura
Writer:
Keigo Kimura
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Machiko Kyō as Sakin |
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Masayuki Mori as Kuroki no Taro |
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Rentaro Mikuni as Kuroki no Jiro |
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Takashi Shimura as Yoshimichi |
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Minoru Chiaki as Takeichi no Takamaru |
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Bokuzen Hidari as |
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Yūnosuke Itō as Dohachi |
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Tanie Kitabayashi as Mrs. Inokuma |
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Yūko Mochizuki as Kotora |
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Ichirō Sugai as Mr. Inokuma |
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Eijirō Tōno as Jurota |
| Camera | Yasuichiro Yamazaki | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Keigo Kimura | Director |
| Writing | Keigo Kimura | Screenplay |
| Writing | Ryūnosuke Akutagawa | Novel |
