Sumida River

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

Casts

	Shusuke Agata as
	Kōji Mitsui as
	Fumiko Okamura as
	Tatsuo Saitō as
	Ken Uehara as
	Hiroko Kawasaki as
	Hideo Fujino as
	Mitsuko Yoshikawa as
	Takeshi Sakamoto as
	Seiji Nishimura as
	Tetsu Tsuboi as
	Setsuko Shinobu as
	Ryōtarō Mizushima as
	Kazuko Okada as
	Sugako Takimi as

Crew