Sumida River (1942)
Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big stars like Hasegawa or Bando. "Sumidagawa", named after the river that runs through Tokyo, is also a period film, but thematically a modern one. All the themes that you associate with the normal Shochiku women's films set in the present day are in this film, just in a different context: love, the planning of a marriage, career, family relations and societal melancholy. There is no action or swordplay.
Director: Kintaro Inoue
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Shusuke Agata as |
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Kōji Mitsui as |
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Fumiko Okamura as |
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Tatsuo Saitō as |
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Ken Uehara as |
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Hiroko Kawasaki as |
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Hideo Fujino as |
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Mitsuko Yoshikawa as |
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Takeshi Sakamoto as |
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Seiji Nishimura as |
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Tetsu Tsuboi as |
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Setsuko Shinobu as |
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Ryōtarō Mizushima as |
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Kazuko Okada as |
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Sugako Takimi as |
| Writing | Toshio Tamikado | Writer |
| Directing | Kintaro Inoue | Director |
| Writing | Kintaro Inoue | Writer |
| Writing | Matsutarō Kawaguchi | Story |